NYRA

I made sure Lena and I never crossed paths.

It wasn’t hard. The hospital was big enough if you knew how to move.

If she had the morning shift, I switched mine to the afternoon. If she worked nights, I suddenly became a morning person. I smiled at the schedule board like nothing was wrong. I even joked with the nurses about how I was “experimenting with my sleep cycle.”

No one needed to know the truth.

I couldn’t afford to see her in the hallway and not talk to her.

I ...