Chapter 4
Nurse Alice Elliott hung up the phone and turned to Deepan.
“We’ve got another patient coming in under police escort.”
Deepan sighed. That would be the third one that day. He wasn’t in the mood for more idiotic fools getting dragged in with handcuffs on, screaming blue murder and frightening all the patients. The last one had manhandled Alice, and even as she stood at the nurse’s station beside him, Deepan could see her trembling. He had tried to get her to go home, but Alice had politely declined.
Barely graduated, and she was tough as nails. Deepan put his pen down. The paperwork could wait.
“Get him into Room Three when he gets here and then have security watch him while I get briefed by the officer.”
“Who’s going to treat him?”
Alice bit her lip. Deepan squeezed her ar
