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Jack drove to the hospital as quickly as he legally could. She’d asked him not to, but there was no way he was going to listen to that.
She hadn’t given him many details — just that she was walking back to her car in the school car park after work and had been set upon by two men. She said she was fine — just a bit bruised — but had accidentally let slip that they’d also managed to break her leg.
Uniformed officers had already attended and taken a statement, but Jack wasn’t visiting on official police business — not that he told the ward sister that.
He showed her his police identification and asked which bed Chrissie was in, before following the instructions to take the second room on the left, where he’d find her in bed six. Visiting hours were long over, and this was the only way
