43 Chase
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AFTER SONNY AND JASON left, I choked down the Culver’s and took a shower. As I scrubbed the grime away, all I could think about was getting my hands on the person responsible for everything.
Mattie.
It all led to her. I still didn’t know who wore the mast that night, but she did. I needed to make her tell me who it was.
I called for a nurse and asked for a telephone charger.
“I’m sorry. I don’t have one available. We might have one in the gift shop,” the woman suggested.
“Am I allowed to go down there?”
“That depends. How are you feeling?”
“Better, now that I’ve eaten. Look,” I stood up and started doing jumping jacks, “Hell, I could jog home and back right now, no problem.”
She laughed. “Okay, stop that. You just woke up from a coma. I don’t think it’s a good i
