Assassin (1)

Rumble, crash! Crash-crash!

As if a hole had been punched through the sky, sheets of rain lashed mercilessly against the Emergency Medical Center's windows.

Thunder boomed horribly, as if the building were about to collapse at any moment.

“…Of all days.”

I muttered, shaking the rain out of my hair the moment I got out of the taxi.

After those two unreal days of causing a scene at the conference and even winning an award, my first day back at work had to be a night shift in this god-awful weather.

This is just awful.

Whirr—

When the automatic doors opened, the familiar smell of disinfectant and the damp, subdued air unique to night shifts greeted me.

The station was unexpectedly quiet...