Twisted Taste (Strange Tango) by Michelle Dayton

Author:Michelle Dayton [Dayton, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2017-07-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

They made it back to the community hospital in record time. Adam knew his driving hadn’t been exactly safe, but Jess didn’t complain and no sirens stopped them. With Jess at his heels, he ran up to the ER’s reception desk. “I need to check on Celeste Charles.”

He was too worried, too loud. The nurse physically jerked back at the volume of his voice. “She should have gotten here by ambulance about thirty minutes ago.”

The nurse shook her head. “No, no woman by that name has checked in tonight.”

Before he could snap, Jess placed a cautionary grip on his arm and spoke in a pleasant voice. “How about a Cece Brink?”

The nurse shook her head. Goddamn it. But Jess just continued with a rueful shake of her head. “My sister has been married and divorced a few times, and I never know what name she’s using. She’s about five six and blonde. She would have been admitted with severe gastrointestinal symptoms. She may have even been unconscious.”

The nurse calmed at Jess’s explanation, but held up her hands in apology. “We haven’t checked in any women since this morning, hon. It’s been a real quiet night.”

Adam and Jess hovered at the entryway of the ER, unsure of what to do next. “Could she have been taken to another hospital?” Jess asked.

Adam fought the panic in his gut and focused on her question. “Unlikely. There isn’t another one for almost thirty miles and this is where she was taken yesterday.” He tried calling Celeste’s cell again, but it just rang and rang until it went to a generic voice mail message.

An ambulance pulled into the driveway and they both stiffened. But when the EMTs opened the back doors, it was an elderly man on a stretcher that they carried down. One of the medics pushed the man into the hospital, and the other climbed back into the ambulance.

Before he could close the doors, Jess dashed over. “Hey there! Any chance you picked up a woman at a Healdsburg apartment building within the last hour?”

The medic looked down at Jess, squinting. “We didn’t get her, but I heard the dispatcher order another unit over there.”

“Could you find out where they took her?” Jess asked. “She’s not here.”

The EMT hesitated and Adam held his breath. “It’s my sister,” Jess said. “She called me an hour ago, told me she’d called 911 and an ambulance was coming. She was very sick.”

“Hold on,” the medic said. He closed the door.

Adam joined Jess and wrapped her in his arms. “Thank you,” he breathed in her ear.

The EMT opened the car door and climbed out. “Okay, this is a weird one, folks. Turns out, we did dispatch an ambulance to that apartment building after receiving a 911 call from a woman who was too sick to move.” He looked down at Jess. “When they got to the apartment no one answered. They feared she’d passed out, and according to procedure, they forcibly entered the unit through a window.

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