A wave of scorching heat burst out. He threw the door open, pulled off the seatbelt. Scooped the boy into his arms — he was barely breathing. And ran. The clinic was two blocks away. He didn’t feel his legs, he just ran. The doors hissed open.
“HELP!” he shouted.
A nurse ran over.
“The child… in the car… heat… he…” he barely managed to say.
They took the child away. They told him: he arrived just in time.
Fifteen minutes later, a woman came into the clinic. She ran up, saw Oliver — and instead of thanking him, exploded:
“You BROKE my car?! Are you crazy?! I WROTE my number on the windshield! I was only in the supermarket for a minute!”
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