Chapter 5

I sat in my car in the hospital garage until my hands stopped shaking, then I went to the Super 8 on the bypass and paid cash for one night because I did not want my card lighting up anything he could see.

At twenty past eight the next morning he was standing next to my car in the staff lot with two coffees. I had just come off trying to sleep in a room that smelled like bleach.

"Get in. It's freezing."

"Five minutes."

He handed me a coffee I did not take.

"Denise asked me this morning if…