Chapter 5

“Come home with me. Whatever we need to talk about, we can talk about it in private.”

Grant stood outside Penny's door with my hospital bag in his hand, as if he'd finally completed a task that had been put off for too long.

Only twenty-three minutes had passed since he'd hung up the phone.

Last night, while I was lying in that hospital bed waiting for him, I'd checked the route from our house to the hospital over and over again.

It was even closer than Penny's place.

Penny didn't move aside.

“She just got out of the hospital.…