Chapter 16 - What I Built From RuinsA year later, Vance Harbor had a new name.
A nonprofit healthcare group purchased the hospital after its board collapsed under scandal.
Part of the settlement money recovered from Luca’s financial schemes returned to my family trust.
I used some of it differently.
I established the Sterling Patient Advocacy Foundation.
Its mission was simple.
Patients deserved someone in the room whose loyalty belonged entirely to them.
Emily became our clinical director.
Rachel joined the advisory board.
Noah complained that I gave him too much paperwork.
For the first time in years, my life was busy without feeling controlled.
I still carried a scar across my abdomen.
I stopped hiding it.
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It reminded me that survival was not the same thing as luck.
Sometimes survival became a decision made every morning afterward.
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