Isidoro met Sara at the hospital and found a desk to finish writing his report. He waited while the ER doctor examined her. After the exam, he said, “You can ride with me to Headquarters.” He sounded insistent.
“Am I a suspect?” Sara asked. It was the second time she felt they might be seeing her that way.
“Not that I know of.” He smiled as if realizing his gesture of friendship had been too aggressive.
“Then Daphine can drive me.”
During the trip to be fingerprinted, and then driving back to the hospital with Daphine to check on Pierce, Sara said, “This can"t be happening to me.”
“Sounds more like one of our wild stories when we were kids,” Daphine said.
They found Pierce in a private room adjacent to the Intensive Care Unit. The charge nurse was reluctant to give information to non
