You're under arrest for kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment," the first officer said. He looked at Doctor Owen. "Sir, can you tell us what happened?"
Owen is shaking-genuinely shaking now, adrenaline flooding through him. "I'm a doctor- I was at the hospital when they took me. Threw me in a trunk. There were other doctors-they brought us here-they were interrogating us, trying to find someone-" His voice cracked. "There was a fire. I barely got out. There's-there's a young man inside. A doctor. They shot him, and he's bleeding. Please, you have to help him."
The officers are already moving, shouting orders into their radios. More police cars arrived. Firefighters rush toward the burning mansion.
Doctor Owen stood there, covered in blood and black dust, as paramedics rushed over
