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❝ you don't get to act like you know me after all these years. ❞
𝐟𝐨𝐫·𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐞 | to abandon, leave behind, or renounce.
Or something Vivian had spent her entire life doing.
Eight years ago, Vivian Song walked away from Pittsburgh, leaving behind the hospital she once called home and the man who thought they were building a life together.
Since then, she has spent decades chasing trauma across the world-war zones, disaster sites, and operating rooms where lives hung in the balance. She built the career she always dreamed of, becoming one of the most respected trauma surgeons in the country. Yet no matter how far she traveled, some things refused to stay buried.
When an offer to become Chief of Trauma Surgery brings her back to Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, Vivian finds herself face-to-face with the past she spent years avoiding. The hospital has changed. The people have changed. And so has Dr. Michael Robinavitch, the former best friend she left behind.
But emergency medicine has never waited for anyone. Between impossible cases, exhausted residents, and fifteen-hour shifts that leave little room for regret, Vivian quickly discovers that pieces of Robby exist everywhere-in the doctors he trained, the department he built, and the life that continued without her.
As old wounds resurface and long-buried truths demand to be confronted, Vivian must decide whether coming back is enough. Because some mistakes cannot be undone, some people never truly move on, and sometimes the hardest thing in the world isn't leaving.
It's staying.
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