A pair of women who looked like mother and daughter stood in the doorway. They were filming my cousin using a transparent handphone, shouting, “Police brutality! Hitting civilians! We’ll expose you so you can’t be a police officer anymore! Hmph!”

My cousin was infuriated, shouting, “Put down your phone! Put it down!”

“Brother-in-law! Hurry up and stop her!” Loki shouted at the doctor.

Said doctor was my cousin’s husband. He was quite tall, but he was already balding and putting on weight, showing his age. He didn’t look like my cousin’s type. My cousin had always said she would only marry a beautiful man.

He came forward to hold back my furious cousin and Loki. “This is the ICU. Please don’t make too much noise,” he said politely,...