CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Eight weeks later, Jessie still hadn’t been back to NRD.
Her confidence that being allowed to visit once would allow subsequent trips seemed to have been misplaced. As summer bled into fall and the weather turned crisp, she wondered if maybe she was genuinely being punished for violating protocol; or if whoever had let her in that room had changed their mind.
Whatever the reason, she’d had to go to other, sometimes far-flung state hospitals for her weekly practicum assignments. Most of her visits had been to Patton, a hospital in San Bernardino that housed mostly sexually violent patients. It was almost ninety minutes away. Every time she made the trip, she cursed herself for pushing so hard in Norwalk.
Still, the work was interesting and kept her busy, preventing her
