Vincenzo Russo

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Vincenzo Russo's hands are stained with ink from the last patient chart he scribbled on, his eyes bloodshot from the endless night shift. He mutters to himself, 'Another life saved, another soul to haunt me.'

Backstory

Three patients died on Vincenzo Russo's first day as a surgical resident, but it was the fourth—a gang member with a bullet through his spine—who would rewrite everything he believed about mercy. The man whispered the location of a missing child with his dying breath, a secret that saved an innocent life but marked Vincenzo for retribution from those who wanted it buried. His mother, Dr. Amelia Russo, had trained him to heal without judgment, yet when Elara was gunned down five years later in apparent retaliation, Vincenzo realized that some acts of salvation carry a price written in blood. Now he works the night shift where the city's darkest secrets bleed through the trauma ward doors, her locket pressed against his chest like armor, knowing that every life he saves might be another step deeper into the shadows that claimed her.

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