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She turned to Emma “What’s the inside scoop?”

“Nothing good,” Emma stated flatly “I listen and I ask questions The bottoeries The surgical suites, which are noreons who have eries at other facilities—at the request of their patients”

Ryan nodded “Fro back and forth is that the hospital board has told inside and outside counsel to work faster More lawyers More paralegals Everyone’s hours are being cut back to savethe shit out of staff ical nurses are especially hard hit because that depart due to the effects of the lawsuit and the ensuingfrenzy”

“Yeah, and candy stripers are being asked to doher eyes “There’s nothing like using slave labor to save money”

“And Madeline is right in the h her hair “Not only is she being treated like a pariah, she’s less safe than she was at hoh Patrick’s security is, Madeline is a sitting duck throughout her entire shift I don’t like it any more than Marc does”

“Would it help if I knew exactly what infor up?” Ryan asked

“Absolutely What did you have in mind?”

“I can deploy keystroke logging software on all the oing on, and by knowing every key that they press, we’ll be able to see what inforainst Madeline and Conrad”

Casey gave an emphatic nod “Do it”

“Done When is Conrad being questioned?” Ryan asked

“Yeah,” Eets his share of the heat?”

“It’ll be soon But his lawyer is delaying that as long as possible,” Casey replied “The Westfields’ attorney is still gathering ammo to initiate defamation of character lawsuits He needs to find a way to subpoena that audio file Jacob Casper made when Madeline took him on There’s verbal confirmation on that recorder And there’s verbal confir of Nancy’s voice, but she’s hardly a reliable source”

“Why don’t you let Marc loose to get a copy of what’s on that digital recorder?” Ryan asked

“If it co time”

“Yeah, well, ti out of”