Free As the Wind
Language: en

My mother came to Chicago for heart surgery, but my husband, Danny, flat out refused to be her attending surgeon. "I am up for Chief of Surgery this year. What if someone reports me for favoring my own family?" He was the top cardiothoracic surgeon in the hospital, a recognized genius with a scalpel. Yet as his wife, I had to beg him on my knees to save my own mother. My heart ached as I supported my parents' weight. I glared at him. "You cannot even help us get a hospital room?" He frowned. "Your parents are from a ranch in Montana. They could be carrying livestock bacteria. I cannot risk…