Chapter 1 - The Outrage at Station Four
"Can you fire her right now?" Madison screamed, her voice piercing the sterile quiet of the hospital hallway while her tiny teacup poodle trembled against her pink tweed crop top.
"Ma'am, please lower your voice," Nurse Clara said calmly, not even blinking as she held her clipboard against her grey medical scrubs. "This is a trauma ward, and patients require absolute silence."
"Don't you dare talk to me about silence!" Madison snapped, thrusting her smartphone closer to Clara’s face to capture the nurse's blank expression for her million followers. "She looked at me like I was garbage! She refused to step aside when I was filming my GRWM video for the charity gala!"
Doctor Vance stepped through the swinging double doors, his lab coat billowing slightly as he adjusted his glasses. He looked from Madison’s furious, powdered face to Clara’s steady, impassioned eyes. "What seems to be the disturbance here, Miss Vance?"
"This rude woman is incompetent and hostile, and I demand her badge right now, or my father will pull his entire million-dollar endowment from this wing before sundown," Madison hissed, tossing her long blonde waves over her shoulder.
Clara took a slow breath, stepping forward to hand her clipboard to the doctor without a hint of fear. "Doctor Vance, Miss Vance was recording inside the restricted surgical recovery zone, endangering patient privacy."
"You're lying!" Madison shrieked, pointing a manicured finger at Clara's chest. "She's just jealous of my handbag and my lifestyle!"
Doctor Vance sighed heavily, removing his glasses to pinch the bridge of his nose. He looked directly at Madison, then shifted his gaze to the nurse with a strange look of recognition. "Miss Vance, Nurse Clara cannot be fired, because she happens to own the legal trust that funds this entire hospital floor."
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Madison froze, her phone slipping slightly in her grip. "What did you just say?"
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