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“Looks good, so far. Go over to the hospital. Get an update. Maybe Stahd’ll wake up and give you an interview.”
She thought about Zora’s lackluster response to trying to get the three of them inside Tanner’s room. “I’ll be lucky to get a toe inside his room.”
“You sell your talents short, Ellie. If anyone can get inside that hospital room, it’s you.” He snapped the paper with his fingers. “And these friends you all grew up with? Take some with you. A whole class reunion. That’s a good story.”
Chapter 17
Now . . .
BBBBEEEEEPPPPP!
The ominous sound of the flatline jolted Zora’s pulse as she stood just outside the door of Tanner’s room with Ellie and Amanda. Everyone had started running, and they’d been shooed from the room.
Zora moved back out of the way with Ellie and Amanda, huddling near them.
Ellie was spitting mad. “She tried to kill him!” she declared.
The alarm and the frantic activity surrounding Tanner were driving Zora crazy. She wanted to clap her hands over her ears. Ellie wanted to blame Delta for the attack on Tanner. “We don’t know that,” Zora reminded her, then, “Are you going to be reporting on this?”
“No.”
“I just thought—”
“Let’s wait till we find out what happens,” Amanda broke in.
She stood to one side in a gray suit teamed with a white blouse with a long, loopy bow that was out of date and yet looked fantastic on her. Zora wondered if she should have worn something similar; she felt a bit overdressed compared to her friends . . . though maybe friends wasn’t quite the right term. Ellie was in slacks and a conservative dark blue blouse, while Zora was in her Louboutins and her black Saint Laurent dress with the ruched neckline. But, hell . . . no one was paying any attention. It was all about rushing people and lights and that horrible BBBBEEEEEEEEEPPPPP.
Tanner . . . not Tanner . . .
“I’m going to find out who did this to him,” Ellie declared.
“You just said it was Delta,” Amanda reminded.
“Then I’m going to prove it was her,”
she corrected.
The policeman who’d been on guard, but who’d clearly been a bit in awe of Ellie—he’d recognized from the news—and had let them in because of it, had practically pushed them away from Tanner and into the hall when the beeping started. Now he stood by, as if unsure what they were going to do next. Zora wondered herself. She was glad to be out of the closeness of the room; she’d felt like she might pass out. But now they were just waiting . . . for what? She didn’t like the beeping. It was too urgent.
Amanda looked at the door they’d just exited as if there were a whole scenario going on inside her head—thoughts and ideas about what she’d just seen that she apparently didn’t want to share.
“Is he going to live?” Zora quavered.
“Grow a pair,” Ellie snapped at her.
“That’s so mean. I just wanted to know what you thought.”
“If he dies, he won’t be able to tell what happened,” said Amanda.
“I’ll find out from Delta,” Ellie said tightly.
“Try to avoid torture during your third degree,” Amanda suggested.
Ellie snorted.
“Do you think . . . she’ll be arrested?” asked Zora.
“If there’s a God,” Ellie said shortly. She was digging in her purse for her cell phone.
