Chapter 28Nick watched as Anne came into the waiting room of Sheridan Road Hospital. She looked better, but not much. They had cleaned away the dried blood that had caked her face. Nick looked for other good signs, but found none. The entire left side of Anne’s face was swollen. Her upper lip had grown to twice the size of her lower lip, pulling up to expose her front teeth. The broken nose had left a dent in its ridge, and Nick wondered if the doctors had made any promises about how it would finally look and if Anne would ever be able to model again. Her right eye was a mass of black, yellow, blue, and purple bruised tissue, open just a slit. Nick thought the worst part was the deep razor gash that divided her face in two right below her nose. Nick shook his head and covered his face with
