Chapter Five
The hours that followed the shooting of Jared Lowell were a blur in Chante’s mind. Emergency personnel, doctors and nurses came rushing out of the hospital in droves. A trolley was speedily brought out from the emergency door as a mob of white-coated medics followed in hot pursuit. Instructions were shouted by a doctor and carried out by nurses before Jared was whisked back inside the hospital.
Chante stood numbed with shock. Her whole body had turned cold. She couldn’t stop crying and screaming Jared’s name. Nurse Betty and some of the other nurses from the second floor came and tried to calm her down. She felt a prick on her arm and realized she was injected with a sedative.
But she didn’t want to go to sleep. She had to go and see what was happening with him.
“It’s alri
