Chapter 9
The police allowed Slade to take Vin and Davie into the city after getting their statements about what had gone down. Slade drove them directly to the hospital where an ER doctor checked the damage to Vin’s ribs—telling him two of them fractured but not broken—then gave him a prescription for painkillers, which they filled at the hospital’s pharmacy.
Soon, Davie and Vin were sitting in Slade’s car, after brushing as much of the dried dirt off as they could, despite Slade telling them not to worry about it.
They knew, because Slade had told them, that Ken was already in one of the hospital rooms, recovering from the beating he’d sustained from Butch. “We were tracking you, of course,” Slade explained. “When we saw you were moving fast but not like you were in a vehicle, we aler
