CHAPTER FIFTEEN
When Riley reached the hospital in Ohlman, she rushed inside. Bill was already there, pacing in the waiting area.
“Is she alive?” Riley asked. “Is she awake?”
“That’s what they tell me,” Bill said. “They haven’t let me in to see her yet.”
“How did they find her?” Riley asked.
Bill shook his head, as if in disbelief.
“That’s what’s really weird,” he said. “Somebody dropped her off right outside—where you just came in. But whoever left her drove straight off.”
“Do you think it was the person who hit her?”
“We’re assuming that. Lucy Vargas is checking the surveillance footage right now. We’ll know more about it soon. Come on, let’s go find out if we can see her yet.”
Bill led Riley down a hallway to a room with two cops standing outside. A stern-looking woman in a whi
