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“I will. In the meantime, you should rest. You’ve had quite the ordeal.”
How did she know anything about what I’d been through? My condition might be worse than I initially thought.
I felt exhausted, though that was nothing new as of late. My body was sore and achy.
I wanted to go home and have everything normal again.
She waited for my acquiescence. How was I supposed to rest when both the people I loved were in the hospital unconscious?
“I need a phone please. I have to speak to Dr. Ellis to check on my daughter.” I never should’ve left her.
What had I planned to do when I met with Alma? Killing her had been a thought in the back of my mind, but it hadn’t been my purpose.
I’d wanted answers.
I needed to know why she’d done what she had. How she could’ve done it.
Grandma Josephine always said if a person goes looking for trouble, they always found it.
She was right.
And Kane was in surgery right now because I’d acted without thinking things through first.
“Is your daughter here?”
I shook my head, causing a dull throbbing in my temples. “Savannah House. It’s a private facility. I-I can’t remember his phone number.”
“I’ll find it and fill the doctor in.”
“I need Patrick Whitley’s contact information too.” I glanced around my small room. No phone in sight. “Is there a telephone I can use?”
“Let me see what I can do.”
Then she was gone . . . and I was alone.
I’d never felt so isolated.
I was cut off from Penelope. Cut off from Kane.
We should’ve been together.
I’d made a drastic error in judgment.
Where was Alma now? Had she escaped?
I couldn’t remember anything after I lost consciousness in the water.
Her words . . . that look of pure hatred in her eyes . . . our physical struggle . . . all of it was too much.
It didn’t seem possible that after my childhood friend Tyler’s death Alma was the one who saw me through the grief and pain. She’d encouraged me to keep going. Assured me it was all a horrible accident, and he wouldn’t want me to stop living because he was gone.
She’d never been perfect. Who was?
I didn’t think I’d ever grasp how she’d turned into . . . I couldn’t find words to describe that venomous woman.
Exhaustion overtook me.
My eyelids refused to stay open.
