Chapter 31
The Next Morning
Lori sat reading the book David had put in her hand as she had raced to catch the plane. She was looking at the book, but she couldn’t tell anyone what it was about or even the names of the characters. She kept glancing at the still figure in the bed and at the machines that beeped their incessant beeps or flashed the steady stream of lights and squiggles. She wasn’t sure what they meant, but as long as they didn’t change, and certainly if they didn’t stop, she knew that Cameron’s life remained constant: comatose but at least alive.
The operation to correct the hemorrhaging in the brain and repair the broken cheekbone had lasted over nine hours. Since then, Lori had sat in the shaded hospital room waiting…just waiting. She knew that she had dozed off several
