CHAPTER THIRTY SIX
As Sam started to wake up, she realized that she was aching all over. Her head was splitting with pain.
Where am I? she wondered.
She opened her eyes, and her surroundings started to come into focus …
Oh, yeah. The hospital.
She’d been in and out of consciousness since her ordeal at the pier. She remembered being brought to the emergency room, where her head wound had been stitched and bandaged, and a doctor had run tests to make sure her concussion wasn’t serious.
She noticed that some people were standing at one side of her bed. They were Agents Paige, Jeffreys, and Roston. Then she realized that someone on the other side of the bed was holding her hand. She turned her head slightly and saw her father smiling down at her. He looked like his old lucid self.
“Dad!
