What’s going on here?
Just then Benet Heartley burst out of the elevator and hurried towards her. He walked so quickly with a limp, he didn’t spare his leg as he struggled to stop on the slippery floor.
“Thank heavens I found you!” he said excitedly. “You have to come! Linda moved her hand!”
Julie instantly forgot all her troubles—the missing experimental materials, the scientific proofs, her missing boss, her recently promoted ex-colleague. Because, in the end, saving a life was all that counted.
As they approached the sick ward, Julie saw from afar that Linda’s door was filled with hand-drawn crosses. They were on the walls, on the cabinets, at the end of the bed, on the trays, on the lamps, on the oxygen tanks, on the bed cover … even on the tubes coming out of Linda’s body.
Josh s
