“Safe and snug in her little house, she thumbed through a magazine, sipping peppermint tea gone tepid, despite the sultry temperature. When the telephone rang she knew immediately, given the weather conditions, that she was being summoned back to work. As one of the few single nurses permanently staffing the city’s busiest emergency room, her name was often at the top of the call list when one of her colleagues could not cover his or her shift or catastrophe unexpectedly increased the workload. ...Sighing, she set aside the teacup and laid the magazine next to it on the small, round, glass-topped table that her parents had carried all the way from Thailand. Inlaid with delicately carved nacre, it had been given to them on the day of her birth and so had come to her upon their retirement. As the phone bleated again, she reached for it at her side. Ten minutes later she was backing her economy coupe out of the garage, reflecting that the weather would undoubtedly barrage the E.R. with the victims of auto accidents, one of Houston’s most prolific killers.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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