Chapter 24

The woman looked at him, asking, “Who are you?”

“His husband, God damn it. What room is he in?”

“Your name, sir?” she replied calmly.

“Steven Cooke. Lady, will you just answer my question.”

She checked her computer. “You’re on the list the police gave us. He’s in the ICU, room 205.” She’dbarely gotten the words out before Steve was racing to the elevator.

He stepped out on the third floor, striding over to the nurses’ station. “Where’s room 205?”

One of the nurses asked who he was before saying, “I’ll take you down there. I will warn you, you can only be in the room for five minutes and he’s not conscious.”

“But he will be?” Steve asked, trying to keep the fear out of his voice.

“Yes. He’d heavily medicated at the moment, due to his injuries.”

As he followed her down a hallway, he asked, “What kind of injuries?”