Rescue by Anita Shreve

Author:Anita Shreve
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Family secrets, Life change events, FIC000000, Family Life, Fiction, Psychological, Suspense, General, Domestic fiction, Emergency medical technicians, Love stories
ISBN: 9780316020725
Publisher: LITTLE BROWN & CO INC (2010年11月30日)
Published: 2010-11-30T07:14:22.484000+00:00

At the hospital, after being examined in the ER, Rowan was transferred to a double room in the pediatric wing. Webster stayed with his daughter every minute. He gently gave her a sponge bath to wipe the blood away. He fed her from the trays the nurses provided. He watched the monitors. He read to her when she was awake. During the forty-three hours Webster was in Rowan’s room, he slept for only six of them. He never went to visit Sheila.

On the morning of the third day, Webster’s mother came to collect Rowan and Webster. They would stay at her place for a few days. His mother never said a word about Sheila.

Webster’s mother had brought a newly purchased car seat and a blanket in which Webster wrapped his daughter. He sat in back and fastened them both in. Stuffed animals from the nurses filled the rest of the backseat, and Rowan giggled when Webster began to name them. Burrows followed in the cruiser. A probie would pick him up.

At the house, Webster gave Rowan to his mother. He knew there was a treat waiting for his daughter on the kitchen table. He waited on the porch.

“You’re out of service for a week,” Burrows said when he arrived.

“OK.”

“They’re going to release Sheila tomorrow morning. A cruiser will come to get her to take her to the station, where they’ll charge her.”

“The guy in the truck?”

“Fractured his hip and his knee. He might get out next week. But the knee is bad, and he’ll need surgery and months of rehab. Not a volunteer firefighter, by the way.”

“What are the charges?”

“Reckless endangerment, driving under the influence, vehicular assault, who knows.”

“She’ll do time?”

“For sure. Second accident. Now she’s hurt a guy.”

Webster looked away.

“The cops won’t show up for her until ten o’clock,” Burrows said carefully.

Webster nodded again.

“This is coming straight from Nye.”

Webster was surprised. “Who knew?”

“Who knew?” Burrows said.

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