Chapter 49
JeffStepping through the sliding glass doors of the hospital, I couldn’t move fast enough to match the urgency in my heart.
The events of the evening turned over and over in my mind. An unknown number popped up on my phone. I’d waited seventeen minutes to listen to the voicemail because we were at dinner.
A feverish intensity overtook me when I heard the words, “This message is for Jeff McConnell. This is Sergeant Amy Thompson with the Dallas police. There’s been a break-in at your house, and your fiancée Taryn was injured. She’s going to be fine, but she’s been admitted to the hospital.”
The rest turned to a blur. There was the name of the hospital and a phone number, which I called. The police had reached Taryn’s mother, who was on her way from Oklahoma.
Someone had attac
