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Reborn Surgeon: The Billionaire’s Secret Obsession
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6 Chapters
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Chapter 18 18 img
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Chapter 27 27 img
Chapter 28 28 img
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Chapter 33 33 img
Chapter 34 34 img
Chapter 35 35 img
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Chapter 37 37 img
Chapter 38 38 img
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Chapter 40 40 img
Chapter 41 41 img
Chapter 42 42 img
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Chapter 44 44 img
Chapter 45 45 img
Chapter 46 46 img
Chapter 47 47 img
Chapter 48 48 img
Chapter 49 49 img
Chapter 50 50 img
Chapter 51 51 img
Chapter 52 52 img
Chapter 53 53 img
Chapter 54 54 img
Chapter 55 55 img
Chapter 56 56 img
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Chapter 58 58 img
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Chapter 60 60 img
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Chapter 63 63 img
Chapter 64 64 img
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Chapter 66 66 img
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Chapter 6 6

The nurse shoved the mask harder against the tiny face.

The baby went from blue to gray. The struggle in the tiny limbs ceased.

Limp.

Karly's vision tunneled.

She didn't see a baby. She saw a patient. She saw an airway that needed to be opened now.

She body-checked the nurse.

The woman went flying, crashing into the paper towel dispenser.

"You crazy bitch!" the mother shrieked, clawing at Karly.

Karly shoved the mother back with one arm, snatching the baby with the other.

"Hold her down!" Karly ordered. The command in her voice was absolute. It was the voice of a Chief Resident.

The mother froze, stunned by the authority.

Karly flipped the baby over her arm. Whack. Back blow.

Nothing.

Whack.

Dr. Vance grabbed Karly's shoulder. "Let go of the child! You are assaulting a patient!"

Karly spun. Her eyes were wild, terrifying.

"She's dead in ten seconds unless I cut!" she roared at Vance. "Give me a scalpel!"

Vance recoiled. "You're insane."

Hakeem was in the doorway now, holding up his phone. Filming. "Look at her! She's killing that baby!"

No time.

Karly reached into her sleeve. She pulled out the utility knife from her desk.

The mother screamed. "She has a knife!"

Karly flicked open the lighter Hakeem had been using at the quarry. The flame licked the steel blade, turning it orange for a split second. A crude sterilization, but better than nothing.

Karly pinned the baby to the changing table. She hyperextended the neck.

She felt for the landmarks. Thyroid cartilage. Cricoid cartilage. The membrane between them.

A space smaller than a fingernail.

"Don't do it!" Vance shouted, lunging forward.

Karly sliced.

A vertical incision. Precise. One centimeter.

Blood welled up, dark and terrifying.

The mother fainted, crumpling to the floor.

Karly didn't look. She grabbed a suction straw from a juice box on the counter-trash left by someone else. She jammed it into the hole.

She put her mouth over the straw and sucked.

Metallic taste. Blood. And something sweet.

She spat onto the floor. A bloody lump of hard candy.

She put her ear to the straw.

Silence.

One second.

Two seconds.

Vance was reaching for her arm.

Then-

A sound. A wet, wheezing gasp.

Then a cry. Thin, weak, but unmistakable.

The baby's chest heaved. Pink color flooded back into the gray cheeks.

Karly slumped against the sink. The utility knife clattered to the floor.

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