Evan had wanted to march right back into Ann Shackleton’s room and ask her to tell him about her near-death experience, but Nurse Wheeler advised him to make it another time, explaining that asking the patient to relive the event now might stir emotions and jeopardize her recovery. He’d read about out-of-body consciousness, but he’d never known anyone who’d experienced it. Encountering it this morning didn’t shake Evan’s faith. If anything, it could confirm it. Life after death? Sure. Granted Ann in her demented state would almost certainly be an unreliable narrator, but the nurse — however stressed she might have been from these events — seemed to have a firm grip on reality.
Was it a lucky guess? But Ann insisted she saw where Ornette put it.
Was it a lucky guess? But Ann insisted she
