Nicole allowed the paramedic to bandage her wrists while she watched the many people hurrying about. The firefighters had managed to keep the fire from spreading to the rest of the buildings, but the area she’d been in was almost completely destroyed.
David watched the men fighting the fire. Another few minutes and he would have lost Nicole forever. “So, I drove over the Meghan’s place as soon as I got Mark’s call. She was just starting to wake up when I got there.”
“Is Meghan okay?” Nicole asked when the paramedic finished up.
“Her apartment was the first place I went, after Mark warned me Steagel had escaped. She seemed okay physically, but she was quite distressed. Apparently Steagel threatened her with a knife to force her to call you. After she did what he wanted, he knocked her o
