Chapter 38Hiroshi flashed his badge at the reception desk, strode through a hallway, a nurse chasing him and burst through the swinging doors of the emergency room. He looked under the bottom of the curtains of the triage exam area until he saw the feet of doctors and nurses in the last space. He batted the curtain back to the surprised faces of a doctor, two nurses and a highly intoxicated Japanese man who wobbled uncontrollably on the exam chair.
“Where is she?” Hiroshi demanded. The nurse pulled the curtain back. Why did he let Akiko go alone? How could he have been so stupid? Hiroshi looked around the emergency room, desperate.
Sakaguchi caught up with him and dropped a heavy hand on his shoulder to pull him away. Sakaguchi bellied him into one of the exam areas and onto a table. “Si
