Chapter 7
The hospital’s private room was a lot better than the emergency area. When the staff had brought Arik in, followed by Dinah in her outfit that made her stick out like a sore thumb, the emergency area intimidated her. She accidentally knocked over some medical equipment. It shouldn’t have gotten in her way, she thought.
Dinah paced the room. Arik looked so peaceful when he was asleep. When she had seen him in the lecture theater, he’d seemed a little tense. She didn’t know him at all, so she wasn’t sure what it was or what to make of it. But she was sure that on that stage, she wasn’t the one who was doing the acting.
A doctor in a white lab coat came in and looked at Arik’s chart. He shook his head.
“What’s the matter?” she asked the doctor. She had no idea why doctors on Ear
