Chapter 20 - Lemon MeringueIn the morning I was being discharged, and called Lindee. She sounded excited over the phone, but I knew it wasn't because I was getting out of the hospital. Then she became quiet. It was one of those dead sounds on the phone you think that maybe the other person hung up. But then she sighed.
“What?”
“Mother called,” she said in a dead tone over the phone. “Mother” meaning her mother.
“Good.”
“Not good! She wants me to come over. Today!”
“We were going to go there soon, anyway,” I said. “We'll go in my Jeep. I've just been released from the hospital. You need to bring me some clothes.”
“Clothes? Why do you need clothes?”
“Mine were ruined in that attack. Plus, they pretty much had to cut them off me.”
“Oh. Right. Didn't think of that.”
Rick stood to one
