Deep Dark by Laura Griffin

Author:Laura Griffin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books

CHAPTER 19

Reed was already in a foul mood when the doorbell rang the next morning. He strapped on his holster and crossed the house to find Jay on his doorstep.

“You’re early.”

“The meeting’s bumped up.” Jay stepped inside. “I sent you a text.”

Jay followed him into the kitchen. Reed saw him notice the liquor bottle on the counter, the glasses by the sink, the mail scattered on the floor around the breakfast table.

“Late night?” Jay looked at him.

Reed ignored the question and unplugged his phone from the charger to read his text messages. Jay had written him a book. The meeting with the Delphi Center DNA tracer had been bumped up an hour, and Hall had scheduled a meeting at eleven.

“Veronica sent the slugs in.”

Reed glanced up. “Already?”

“She processed everything last night. Hall put a rush on it.” Jay leaned back against the counter. “Hey, you got any coffee?”

“No.”

Reed scrolled through the rest of his messages. One from Erika, one from his lieutenant, nothing from Laney.

Not that he’d expected anything.

He had woken up at six fifteen in an empty bed. He wasn’t used to women sneaking out on him. In fact, he couldn’t remember a single time it had happened, and the more he thought about it, the more it pissed him off.

Reed slid his phone into his pocket and grabbed his jacket off the chair. With any luck, he wouldn’t need it today. With any luck, he wouldn’t find himself knocking on some poor woman’s door to tell her that her husband or her son or her daughter was never coming home.

“You ready?” Jay asked.

“Yeah.”

“Oh, hey, and I called the hospital. Gantz made it through the surgery.”

“Maybe we’ll actually get to interview him, get some answers.”

“Wouldn’t count on it,” Jay said. “I hear the guy’s chances are slim.”

• • •

The hospital wasn’t nearly as busy as it had been the night before, which would make Laney’s task more difficult. As she walked toward the nurse’s station, she noted only two people in the waiting room—an elderly woman watching Good Morning America and a guy in a suit standing beside the watercooler texting away on his phone. Laney’s gaze lingered on the suit a moment, trying to decide whether he was FBI. His striped shirt looked a little flashy, and anyway he was using an ­iPhone. So not a fed, then.

She approached the nurse’s desk and tried to look confident, even though she didn’t recognize anyone.

“I’m here to see Edward Gantz.”

“Are you family?” a nurse asked without looking up from her computer.

“I’m his sister.”

The woman stopped typing and gave Laney a once-over, pursing her lips. Despite her cheerful SpongeBob scrubs, she didn’t look friendly.

“I spoke to Nurse Molina last night?” Laney glanced around. “Is she still on duty?”

“No.” The woman looked Laney in the eye for a long moment, then tapped something into her computer. Her expression changed, and Laney felt a pang of dread. “His condition’s been downgraded, I’m afraid. He’s listed as critical.”

“Is there any way—”

“No visitors right now. Doctor’s orders.

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