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    Amber’s POV


    The surgical bed was wheeled out behind me. I held up a broken suture needle and looked straight at Head Healer Eric.


    “This is the needle I used today,” I said, holding up the broken suture needle for everyone to see.


    “See?” Head Healer Eric said. “She did use defective equipment! This kind of thing is strictly prohibited!”


    The patient’s family started to panic, understandably. If anything happened to the patient, I would be held responsible. Doubts and whispers filled the room, questioning both my skills and my character.


    Irritation bubbled inside me.


    “Medical equipment procurement isn’t my responsibility,” I said calmly. “That’s your job, Healer Eric. The tools I received this morning weren’t even from the batch you’re talking about. I wouldn’t know which are defective or not. Isn’t quality control supposed to be handled by the supplier-meaning, you? Why were those defective tools kept around at all?”


    Head Healer Eric snapped. “I just hadn’t gotten around to discarding them.”


    “And where were those defective tools stored?” I asked, irritation building in my voice.


    “In my office.”


    “ording to hospital regtions,” I continued, “defective medical tools should be stored in the supply room, clearlybeled, and kept separately to prevent mix-ups. Why did you keep them in your office? Or were you nning to use them for something else? Maybe reselling them?”


    The patient’s family murmured anxiously, now staring at Head Healer Eric instead of Noah and I.


    “I have proof your assistant was in my office,” Head Healer Eric argued. “Maybe he took them on your orders.”


    I was sure to keep my voice even and calm, despite my frustration at the misced usations.


    “Noah was in your office this afternoon-but he was delivering medical records. You’re wee to check the security cameras in


    my office to see whether he tampered with any surgical equipment.”


    Our discussion erupted into a full on argument when Julian arrived.


    Head Healer Eric looked stunned to see the Alpha. Julian exined that he’d been called by the patient’s family-something had


    gone wrong, and they wanted his intervention.


    “Although there was aplication during the surgery, wepleted it sessfully,” I responded. “Noah, please show the Alpha the post-op recording.”


    Noah did, and the footage clearly disyed the scalp suturing process. The footage proved there was no broken needle left in the patient’s skull, and that my surgical technique was wless, as I’d already known.


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    “The first procedure was performed by me,” Noah said, stepping forward to defend me. “The needle broke inside. It surprised me, as a normal needle shouldn’t have behaved that way. But Healer Amanda removed the broken needle, grabbed a new one, and used a delicate needle to stitch it up perfectly. If it weren’t for Healer Amanda’s skill, we don’t know what kind of ident could’ve


    happened today.”


    Julian nodded, then turned to the Head Healer. “You’ll need solid evidence.”


    Head Healer Eric replied that the packaging of the defective equipment in Healer Amanda’s office was the evidence.


    I shrugged, knowing that wasn’t proof of his usations at all. “I already said-I didn’t know the tools were defective until


    afterward.” I nced over at Julian and Beta. “This kind of thing can be resolved by just checking the surveince footage.”


    Julian ordered his Beta to pull the surveince footage. When he returned, the report was clear: Noah had indeed visited Head Healer Eric’s office that morning, but he’d only dropped off files and left empty-handed. When he returned to my office, he still hadn’t carried anything. The tools had actually been delivered to my office by a nurse-on the Head Healer Eric’s assistant’s


    instruction.


    Head Healer Eric wiped sweat from his forehead. “Maybe I made a mistake.”


    Julian’s tone turned sharp. “You were responsible for storing defective tools properly. ording to hospital policy, that failure alone warrants a one-month sry deduction. But because your negligence nearly caused a medical disaster, you’re being docked three months’ pay.”


    He turned to me. “As for Healer Amanda-if not for your exceptional skills, this could’ve gone very differently.”


    Then he looked around the room. “Healer Amanda is a specialist I personally recruited at great cost. If anyone dares to nder her


    again without cause, I’ll enforce much harsher penalties.”


    I looked at head Healer Eric and smiled my nicest smile. “Maybe the management of this hospital is worse than I imagined. Practicing here, and I have to worry about all this useless shit. I thought this was supposed to be the best hospital in all the packs.”


    With that, I turned and left.


    A whileter, Julian knocked on the door to my office and entered, his attitude respectful.


    “Healer Amanda, I’m sorry for the ident. I’ll take steps to straighten out the corruption at this hospital.”


    I didn’t say anything, merely looking at him from above her mask.


    Julian continued, “Can I discuss something with you?”


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