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"Thank you" I nod to Callie, kiss Hailey’s head one more time, and rush out of the bar and to my car Tulane Medical Center isn’t far from the Quarter, but it feels like it takes ency room

Once there, I have to wait in line to talk to a receptionist

"I’ht in by a man looks up her name and calls back "What’s your name?"

"Adam Spencer"

"I have an Adam Spencer here for Sarah Cox" He listens and nods "I’ll tell hi settled and evaluated They’ll let you back as soon as they have her settled"

"How long does that take?" I ask, i," he replies "I can’t say for sure"

I nod, and rather than sit in one of the infested waiting roo out of ency contact, it must be bad

God, could she be back there dying?

"Ada toward me "Oh my God, Adam"

"Did they tell you what happened?"

"Just that she was shot"

I stop cold "Excuse o wide "Oh my God, they didn’t tell you?"

"I’m not immediate family," I reply "What did they tell you?"

Her eyes fill with tears "They said that she was caught in some cross fire, and she was sh-sh-shot," she sta now "Just like when Kurt died Oh God, Ada us both back and forth When I find out who shot the gun, I’ll kill him myself

"They said she’ll be okay," she continues "But what if she isn’t?"

"She’s going to be fine," I reply, praying with everything in ht

"Adam?" the receptionist calls from the desk "Sarah says it’s okay for you to join her You can go back now I’ll buzz you through Room nine"

"Thank you" I take Becca’s hand in h the double doors and down the hallway, searching for Sarah’s roo at the doorway to the left, and we rush in, around the curtain, and freeze

"Hi" Sarah says and lifts her hand to wiggle her fingers She’s grinning, the goofy grin of a woman on some serious painkillers "A, you came to see ainst Sarah’s I can’trelief and love and fear I want to pull her to ive Becca a minute with her first

"I’ me"