He Broke Every Rule for Her, But Not for My Dying Mother

Burton James had a severe compulsion for order.

As a surgeon, he'd set an iron rule.

Every operation ran strictly by the schedule, and no one could make him bend it.

The day my mother was dying, I begged him to come to the hospital just half an hour early.

He refused, his voice flat and cold.

"The surgery's set for three. One minute early wrecks the whole procedure."

Yet the moment he turned around, Zara Simmons said her chest felt off, and he threw out his precious schedule to go sit with her.

This was the third time.