Chapter 2 - Cullen Had Written the Rules After Mireya’s Last Emergency
The “rules” were not wedding rules.
They were medical.
Six months earlier, Mireya had been hospitalized after a respiratory episode became serious much faster than anyone expected.
Afterward, her pediatric pulmonologist gave the family a written action plan.
Cullen treated it like law.
If Mireya began wheezing, an adult stayed with her.
Her prescribed rescue treatment started immediately.
Nobody removed a mask because she cried or resisted.
Nobody changed doses without medical instruction.
A backup mask stayed inside the medical bag.
A second rescue kit traveled with Margaret whenever she cared for Mireya.
And most importantly:
If someone believed Mireya was exaggerating symptoms, they still treated first and discussed it later.
Cullen had repeated that rule directly to Tove.
More than once.
Tove always answered:
“I understand.”
Now she had ripped away a working mask in the middle of an episode.
That was why Cullen said she had broken every rule.
But Margaret knew something Cullen did not.
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Tove had been breaking them for weeks.
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