Thursday night Hayley’s lazy evening at home was interrupted by a local news story about a Blackjack police department detective severely injured in a motor vehicle accident. Dread filled her as she knew the panic that would race though the entire department.
The news didn’t give a name, but the officers on scene never would have released it, not until that detective’s family could be notified. Without waiting for more information, she shut off the TV, pulled on jeans and tennis shoes and headed to Highland County Medical Center. It didn’t matter who it was, when one of their own was injured, no matter how, they all turned out to support them.
At the front desk she flashed her badge and the elderly woman behind the counter directed her to a waiting room. Hayley followed her directions, b
