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CHAPTERONE
KANE
Screeechhhh.
I skidded to a stop at Southampton General Hospital’s emergency entrance.
“Sir. You can’t park there.”
“Then move it.” I tossed the keys to the security guard as I ran toward the doors.
The noise inside the emergency waiting room muted as I shoved past two people in line at the desk.
I looked around wildly. “My daughter. Penelope Cunningham. Where is she?”
I sounded like someone else when I spoke. Someone unhinged.
“You’ll have to wait your turn,” the nurse said.
“I need to see her. There was an accident.” I motioned to the people in line. “They look fine. Now where is my daughter?”
I felt JoJo’s presence beside me. She’d been a zombie since Whitley’s call with the news of Penelope’s car crash.
The nurse leveled me with a stern look. “Sir, I can have you removed if you don’t get control of yourself.”
“Do that, and I’ll have you removed,” I snarled.
“Please,” JoJo choked out. “The police told us she’s here. Where can we find her?”
That was the most she’d spoken since before we left the house. The words sounded as broken and anguished as I felt.
I grabbed her hand. “I’ll search this whole hospital if I have to.”
Without waiting for the nurse, I dragged JoJo toward the nearest set of swinging doors.
“Sir! You can’t go back there!”
Watch me.
The doors whooshed as we barged through. I plowed toward another desk with the nurse right on our heels.
“Sir. Sir!”
As we approached, I ignored her.
“My daughter. Penelope Cunningham,” I grated out to the next nurse.
“Please.”
The second nurse glanced at the first one and nodded.
JoJo’s broken plea had gotten through to her. She tapped on the keyboard and clicked the mouse as she studied her computer screen.
Whitley and the cops said they were bringing her here. There couldn’t be another Penelope Cunningham.
What is taking her so long to tell me about my daughter?
“She’s in surgery,” the nurse finally said.
