Finding Lucy: The Dream Traveler Book Three by Ernesto Lee

Author:Ernesto Lee [Lee, Ernesto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-12T16:00:00+00:00

A young nurse with a tattoo of a dolphin visible on her neck directs me towards the Intensive Care Unit located on the second floor. If Maria left home as soon as Cath spoke to her this morning, then it is feasible that she will be here already and, as I step out of the lift, I am more nervous of seeing Maria than I was about seeing the Anti-corruption boys.

Like all hospitals, the smell of antiseptic is heavy in the air, but in the ICU corridor the smell is almost overpowering. Maria is at the end of the corridor with two uniformed police officers looking through a window into one of the isolation rooms.

When she sees me approaching, she immediately bursts into tears and I instinctively pull her close and try to reassure her.

“He’s going to be fine, Maria. The wound looked a lot worse than it was. He’s a tough young man.”

At my mention of the wound, one of the police officers asks me to identify myself.

“And who would you be, sir?”

I show him my badge and then I ask him to give me some time alone with Maria.

“We’ll just be at the end of the corridor,” he replies. “Let us know if you need anything, Sergeant.”

They both move away, and I take Maria towards the window. Ben is sedated and there is a nurse monitoring a blood transfusion drip in his arm. I ask Maria if a doctor has spoken with her yet.

“He just left, Sean. He spoke to me just before you got here. They managed to get most of the pellets out of his shoulder and back. He came out of surgery around an hour ago, but they want to keep him under for a while longer and get some more blood into him.”

“But he is going to be okay?” I ask her.

“Yes, the doctor is confident that he will make a full recovery.”

As she says this, Maria breaks down again and then asks me what Ben was doing in Lincolnshire.

“I don’t understand, Sean. What was he doing here and how did he know where you and Catherine were going to be?”

I tell her exactly what I told Catherine, but she is not convinced and presses the issue.

“He worships you, Sean. It’s all I can do to shut him up about you. Did you know that he is thinking about dropping out of university and joining the police?”

I had no idea about that, and my look answers the question.

“Well he is. He’s been talking about that since you helped us. Please tell me that you had nothing to do with him being here and that you haven’t been encouraging him to drop out of his journalism course?”

Seeing my son in an intensive care bed and seeing his mother pleading for the truth sends my guilt levels racing towards maximum. I had tried to stop Ben following me, but I should have tried harder. The situation could have been a lot worse and we could be standing in a mortuary now instead of a hospital.

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