Chapter 17
“Are you sure?” Walker was in the emergency room, waiting just outside the curtained-off area.
Kruso was looking up at him, the top of her head barely reaching his shoulders. “She’s Ryder’s ex-wife. I know, I can’t believe it, either. Andrea Connelly broke into your house to kill Kate.”
“Is she out of surgery yet?”
“Yeah, it was just a shoulder wound through and through. They cleaned it and stitched her up.” She looked up at Walker. “Just in case you’re wondering, I always hit where I aim.”
He wondered, for a minute, whether she was referring to the fact that he’d missed. “I’m sure you do. Did they find Cindy?”
She nodded. “It’s a shame. This whole thing didn’t have to happen.”
He didn’t miss the moment he spotted Ryder racing to the nurses’ station. He looked frantic and
