CHAPTER 44
THE COP LOOKED remarkably unruffled as he trailed Emmy into the waiting room.
“Most boring drive of my life,” she muttered as she dropped into the seat next to Nick. “Anything?”
“They’ve taken her for tests.”
“Still unconscious?”
“Yeah.” Nick rubbed his hands over his eyes as he remembered his trip to the hospital with Jana all those years ago. Back then, the thin thread of hope had snapped twenty minutes after they arrived, but Lara was still hanging on.
The cop cleared his throat. “Did either of you witness what happened?”
Nick let Emmy take the lead. He didn’t trust the Richmond police, and he didn’t want them poking their noses into Blackwood’s business either. But tonight he was too tired to lie. Luckily, Emmy was the master.
“Yeah. We were driving back to my place
