Her Risk To Take by Toni Anderson

Author:Toni Anderson [Anderson, Toni]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-11-27T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Sarah barely had time to think following a road traffic accident that brought in three trauma patients, two in critical condition. She’d just sent the third teenager up to x-ray after helping wrap a cast from his wrist to his shoulder, and a matching one on his leg. He was the lucky one.

She grabbed a coffee from the break room and walked over to the desk to see where they were in the war against daily madness. She glanced left and saw Henry Henriksson talking to Sheila Goldstein in the corridor.

Crap. “Who called Child Services?” Sarah asked Madge. She’d debated and decided to try to talk Heather into filing a police report first. Then she’d forgotten all about them while fighting to save the life of someone’s teenage daughter. She needed a clone.

“Dr. Spencer alerted social services, and they called in Sheila.”

“I want my son back.” Henriksson’s voice rose over the other patients’. “And I want my wife down here, right now.” He looked up and caught Sarah’s eye. “You lied to me, bitch.” His gaze narrowed into pure hatred, and her heart knocked against her ribs. People glanced toward her nervously. Then security stepped in with Sheila trying to explain protocol to the enraged man. He flung off the hands of the security personnel, turned on his heel, and strode outside.

Madge put her palm on her chest. “Lord have mercy, I thought he was about to lose his shit right here.”

She nodded. “Me too. Who’s next?” Some people had been here for hours. She went through charts with Madge, trying to figure out who needed her most.

There was a strange ratcheting noise at the entrance. When Sarah looked across to the front door, every drop of blood drained from her head. Henriksson had come back inside, only this time he was carrying an assault rifle.

Sarah didn’t think. She ran. She had to find Henriksson’s wife and son before he did. She ran around the corner and heard gunfire as she dove into the elevator and slapped the button. A bullet dinged the metal interior just as the door closed. The guy had stepped over a line he could never come back from. She headed to level three even though Heather Henriksson was on four. She silently apologized to everyone on that floor as she got off and shouted to the staff, “Armed intruder! Lock this floor down immediately!”

She hit the stairs and started pounding the concrete steps. She burst onto the fourth floor and fled along the corridor, shouting the same message. People scattered and started shutting down the elevator and securing fire doors, getting patients back to their beds and barricading themselves inside. Sarah ran into the room where they conducted the CT scans.

“Where’s Heather Henriksson?” she asked.

The technician climbed uncertainly to her feet. “She left. Said she was going to get her son and go home.”

A wave of terror shot through her. Oh, God. The daycare. She had to make sure the children were safe. But the alarm had been raised, and they would shut the place down.

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