Louder.

Chaos erupted again, but Daniel wasn’t moving anymore.

His eyes were locked on the bracelet.

A memory hit him like a wave.

Rain hitting hospital glass.

A child’s hand slipping from his.

A flatline sound that never left his mind.

The same teddy bear.

The same bracelet.

The same failure.

“You promised…” the girl whispered again, her voice fading.

Daniel’s hands started shaking—something that had never happened before in surgery.

A nurse grabbed his arm. “Doctor, we need to move NOW!”

But Daniel couldn’t move.

Because he remembered the truth.

That bracelet didn’t belong to this child.

It belonged to someone else.

Someone he had lost years ago.

Someone who had once called him by his first name… before he became Dr. Hayes.

The girl’s grip weakened.

Her voice was almost gone.

“Save me… this time…”

Daniel stepped closer, voice breaking for the first time.

“I remember…”

The monitor screamed louder.

And in that moment, Daniel realized—

this wasn’t just an emergency.

It was a second chance he never thought would come.