Twenty-Two
Helen arrived at the emergency waiting room of Myerton General about half an hour later. Chloe was with John in an exam room.
“Any word?” she asked as she took the seat next to me.
I shook my head. “He was alive and breathing when they got here, but I don’t know anything else.”
“So tell me what happened again? You didn’t get into too much detail on the phone.”
So I told her about John coming out in the hallway collapsing, Chloe finding the empty pill bottle. I did not tell her what John had said.
“Good thing you were over there,” she said. “Why were you there?”
“They’re old friends of mine, they were in our wedding. John’s been having problems since coming home from Iraq. I was checking on him.” All of this was true. But I didn’t tell her what I learned about John
