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Chapters (57)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. CHAPTER ONE
  4. CHAPTER TWO
  5. CHAPTER THREE
  6. CHAPTER FOUR
  7. CHAPTER FIVE
  8. CHAPTER SIX
  9. CHAPTER SEVEN
  10. CHAPTER EIGHT
  11. CHAPTER NINE
  12. CHAPTER TEN
  13. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  14. CHAPTER TWELVE
  15. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  16. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  18. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  20. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  21. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  22. CHAPTER TWENTY
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  32. CHAPTER THIRTY
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  42. CHAPTER FORTY
  43. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
  49. CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN
  50. CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT
  51. CHAPTER FORTY-NINE
  52. Acknowledgments
  53. About the Author
  54. ALSO BY FAYE KELLERMAN
  55. Credits
  56. Copyright
  57. About the Publisher

Oliver walked into the open door. “Smells good. I’d love one of those.”

“I’ll make you one, but only if I can teach you how to do it,” Marge said.

“I’m inept when it comes to coffee.”

She made no attempt to move. “I was just telling the Loo that we didn’t see Adrianna after she left her car and came into the hospital Sunday night.”

Oliver pulled up a chair. “Yeah, all that eyestrain and I wasn’t even watching porno.”

Marge said, “I had a dream last night.”

“Was I in it?”

“No, you weren’t, but Adrianna Blanc was.”

Oliver took the coffee cup out of Marge’s hand. “Pretty please?”

“Finish it. I’m on cup number two anyway.”

“Your dream?” Decker asked.

“Yeah, my dream. All night long, I kept seeing the tapes—grainy black-and-white people walking through the frames…then I jerk myself awake with something sticking in my brain. I’m not even sure if it’s real or a ghost from a bad night’s sleep.”

Oliver sat up. “What’d you see?”

“Was there a series of frames where we saw a woman in scrubs go outside from the main entrance about six in the morning? She was looking down at her cell phone, and then she took out something from her pocket that looked like a second cell phone, then went back inside.”

Oliver scrunched his brow. “Yeah…you think that was Adrianna Blanc?”

“It stuck with me. Why didn’t we think it was her?”

“We didn’t rule her out, Marge, we just couldn’t see her face. Also Adrianna was in the hospital until around eight-fifteen. So even if it was her, it doesn’t help us much.”

“I’d like to see the cassette again,” Marge said. “I’m wondering why someone would leave the hospital and then immediately turn around and come back in. And why would she be carrying two cell phones?”

Decker said, “She might have gone outside to make a call on her cell because she works in a dead spot in the hospital.”

“Okay. That would explain one cell phone. Why two cell phones?”

“Maybe the second cell phone was a pager and she looked at the number and returned because she was needed.”

Marge nodded. “I suppose the sensible thing to do would be to find out if Adrianna was paged at the time.”

Oliver said, “She didn’t have any outgoing call on her cell before eight-fifteen.”

“Something distracted her. Who would she call so early in the morning?”

Decker shrugged. “Maybe she was about to make the breakup call to Garth, but she got paged and had to go back in.”

“But why make the breakup call at that time?”

Oliver said. “She had a few minutes and she wanted to get it over with.”

Decker said, “What’s on your mind, Marge?”