Rion wasted no time seeking out Chloe. Since she wasn’t at the house when he and Annie arrived, that meant she was either on her way home, or still at the hospital. He silently cursed himself for letting the trap go after arriving.
Striding back outside, he grabbed a flare gun and a green signal ball from the box mounted on the wall, and sent the screaming light into the sky.
“What are you doing?”
He turned to see Annie standing at the doorway. The lamp’s glow behind her gave her an almost ethereal halo around her shoulders and head.
“I need to go to the hospital for a moment. Do not worry. I promise not to be long.”
Her face immediately revealed her concern. “Are you feeling all right? We didn’t injure anything back in the trap, did we?”
Rion hurried over to cup her cheek with
