Chapter 50

• Once the doors closed, he exhaled and looked at me with a smile. “She’s okay.”
• It took me a minute to realize what he’d said. Everything tingled. “What? Really?”
• “She’s gonna wake up. They have her under, in an induced coma, but she’s gonna wake up. The bullet was in her gut. But it came in at a weird angle, so it’s a shallow wound. Nasty, they said, but the bang on her head was worse. He ... he hit her over the head. Hard. They say the coma is a precaution.” He fidgeted. “Of course, you know, it might take some time to heal but she’s okay. Alive. They might move her out of the ICU soon.”