CHAPTER 17After passing through two sets of automatic glass doors, Mara found herself standing in the large open lobby of the hospital. No one sat behind or in front of the huge reception desk. Everyone seemed to be coming or going, passing to the left or right of the main desk, disappearing beyond the large wall behind it, speaking in whispers that did not carry far in the open atrium-style foyer. She could hear the slip-slip sound of footsteps on the tiled floor. Mara slowly turned, looking for Bohannon in one of the randomly placed clusters of institutional chairs and end tables that dotted the lobby. While facing toward the glass doors, she picked up his distinctive Southern drawl in the muffled drone coming from behind her. She turned back around.
Bohannon and a tall woman in blue sc
