Except as it turned out, Iris didn’t have a home to get to. Dallas dropped that little bombshell two mornings later in his hotel room.
He, Sully and Cordelia had spent the whole of the previous two days in the hospital with Iris. She’d received a thorough checkup, and the only time she’d stopped screaming had been when Sully or Cordelia was holding her; she’d even looked at Dallas with suspicion. The doctor had declared her to be dehydrated and hungry, but surprisingly bright and alert. X-rays had shown no breaks, no stress fractures, no knitted bones. Her blood tests came back clean; her heartbeat was strong; her internal organs were perfect.
Over the two days at the hospital, Sully, Dallas and Cordelia had answered question after question, both individually and together as a team. The
