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“You…you saved…” Her voice trailed off and her eyes drooped.
Mars gripped her hand and smiled back. “You’re getting better every day, Rachel. Doc says you’re doing good. Real good.”
Decker stepped forward to stand next to Mars. “Rachel, do you feel up to answering some questions?”
She looked up at him, her brow furrowed. “Questions?”
“Yes. Do you know what happened to you?”
Katz reached up and touched her shoulder. “Sh-shot.”
“Yes. Someone tried to kill you.”
“W-who?”
“We don’t believe he has any personal connection to you. We think he was hired to try to kill you.”
“I-I don’t understand.”
Mars gripped her hand again. “You were telling me about shades of truth, Rachel. Remember?”
She nodded slowly.
“Well, in this case I think shades of truthwillset you free.”
Decker said, “We found the room under the American Grill.” He wanted to see her reaction to this, muddled as it might be because of the meds she was on.
She swallowed with difficulty and her eyes fluttered.
Natty came to stand next to Decker, with Childress next to him.
Natty said, “Ms. Katz. We know about Bill Peyton and Brad Gardiner. His wife is lying in the bed next to you. She almost died of a drug overdose.”
Katz looked up at them one by one and her lips started to tremble. “M-Mitzi.”
“Yes,” said Childress. “Lots of people are dying around here, and, frankly, we need answers or others could die too.”
Tears started to stream down Katz’s face and she started to shake. An alarm on her monitor sounded.
The doctor immediately cranked her meds back up and Katz slowly slid back into unconsciousness as the alarm subsided.
“That’s all for now.”
“But we didn’t get anything,” protested Childress.
Natty put a hand on his boss’s arm. “We’ll come back. We’ll get what we need. But she needs to rest now. Let her be.”
Childress looked strangely at Natty, glanced at Decker with a hike of his eyebrows, and shrugged. “Fine. But we can’t let this drag on.”
“It won’t,” said Natty.
Decker looked at Natty for a long moment before glancing at Mars, who was still gripping Katz’s hand and staring down at her. He used his finger to wipe the fresh tears away from her cheeks.
“It’ll be okay, Melvin,” he said quietly.
“You don’t know that.”
“No, I don’t, but we can hope it will.”
