Chapter 7Oliver sat back against the arm of the loveseat in his dark living room with his gaze set on the horizon. With his focus on the lights of the planes landing at the airport, the memory of the scary day couldn’t sneak in and grab his heart.
It had been an exhausting blur. The rush of the EMTs to load Sophie, the questions from the police, the waiting at the hospital for news on Sophie’s condition…Now it all seemed to have been something he’d watched on TV, something time consuming and yet lacking emotional connection, even if that wasn’t true.
Sophie was spending the night in the hospital, but she was going to be okay. She’d been very lucky, though. If just one of the guy’s blows had landed wrong, she wouldn’t have survived. Once again, the guy had been right there, near them. He’
