CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
As it turned out, Ellington was cleared to leave the hospital at 8:30 the following morning. Mackenzie received the news after being tapped awake in the chair of his hospital room, as the doctor smiled down at her warmly.
Ellington showed no signs of infection and though there was a bit of minor scarring on the surface of his lung, there had been no puncture or real damage. Barring a checkup in one week in D.C., it seemed like he had come out of the encounter with Byron Decker very lucky.
There was a comfortable silence between them as the very slow discharge process was carried out. She filled him on the interrogation of Decker at the precinct as best as she could. The last update she’d received had come the night before, when Rodriguez had called her to let her know
