Chapter 56
Brielle
Within a half-hour of our arrival, Mari and Detective Tucker both show up, and I spend the next hour of my life with them, Anne, Benji, and Allen’s entire team in the waiting room just off the hospital’s surgical suites.
Sam sits off by himself in one corner of the room, brooding, his expression bleak. When I try to talk to him, he just shakes his head.
“I didn’t move fast enough,” is all he will say before he lapses into silence again, and I squeeze his hand before I honor his unspoken request for space and rejoin the rest of the team across the room.
I tuck myself between Mari and Anne, both of whom immediately reach out to hold my hands as a silent show of strength and support.
Mark returns from down the hall. “The waiter that was also hit is going to be fine. H
