A nurse came to get him before the beginning of the next shift. Shaking his shoulder, she whispered in his ear, “You have a phone call from a Detective Horner. He wants you to call him back.”
Myles nodded. He didn’t need to check his watch to know it was nearly seven a.m. Seeing Cressa remained asleep, he instructed the nurse to let him know if there was any change in her condition. “She had no episodes last night, other than the one.”
The woman acknowledged him, and left the room.
He was stiff from spending the night in that chair. He needed to go home, take a hot shower, and change into some clean clothes before coming back to the hospital.
In other words, his usual routine.
But first, he had to find out what Horner wanted, even though he already had a good idea what it was.
Before
