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“She doesn’t have long. She would need a surgical suite, and a full team of medical staff to save her life.” The doctor tapped his index finger in different spots on Graciela’s chest. “Her lungs are filling with blood. It would be my guess that her heart got nicked.”
“So there’s no way to wake her up and find out what she knows?”
The doctor shook his head. “All we can do is make her comfortable.”
“You aren’t even going to try and get her to a hospital?”
“Unless you have a helicopter around here somewhere there is little chance of her making it that far.”
Kenna hissed out a breath of her own. Ramon shot her a look. She shifted her weight back and stood. “I don’t want to hear it.”
Ramon stood as well, something like compassion on his face. “Trying to save someone’s life is never a bad thing.”
Kenna strode past him into the bathroom, got some soap, and scrubbed at her hands and arms. She tried not to look much at the tinted water swirling the drain like the chance Graciela had of living. It just washed away, gone forever.
She splashed water on her face and patted it dry with a towel. Tiny motions that helped to center her. The way she always did when her emotions rioted from adrenaline.
Kenna headed through the bathroom to the hall. Maizie moved with her the last couple of feet as they stepped out. Ramon did the same, and the three of them ended up in a huddle in the hallway.
The doctor pulled the sheet from the bed and used it to cover the nanny.
Maizie leaned over to speak low to Kenna. “He gave her something.”
When the doctor stepped out the room into the hallway, Kenna said, “Did you put her out of her misery?”
There were so many things wrong with everything that’d happened to her since she woke up the first day in Mexico. Terror after terror. At this point she would hardly be surprised if he took things into his own hands.
The doctor held no compassion in his expression. “What do you think Navarro pays me for?”
“I wouldn’t think he would waste money on paying you if he could just dump people in the desert and let them die on their own.”
“But then the police would find them, and that means paperwork and more payoffs.”
Kenna folded her arms. “So you avoid having to make more deals or owing anyone a favor. I guess that makes your life easier, doesn’t it?”
She didn’t like the sound of that when it meant the doctor used his job and his position to cover up what amounted to murder.
She let out a long breath.
Maizie’s phone buzzed. “Stairns wants us to meet him in the foyer.”
In the entryway Stairns lifted his chin. “Maizie, do you know what car he was driving?”
The girl nodded. “It looks like a white pickup truck.” She showed Stairns her phone. “I tracked him through the house to the garage, where he stuffed the kid in the passenger seat and left with him.”
Kenna glanced at Ramon. “Would he have been stopped on his way out of the ranch?”
“Depends which way he went.” Ramon looked at Maizie.
“All I know is that he didn’t go out the front.”
Ramon nodded. “He took the back exit, probably because he knows we don’t have cameras on that side.”
“So he’s gone, and he has Navarro’s nephew.”
“And you are going to get him back for me.” The man himself strode into the room. “Kenna Banbury, the private investigator who finds missing people. You want revenge on Kart for what he did to you. This is how you get it.”
She didn’t move. “That’s for me to decide.”
