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What if he’d already waited too long?

After scribbling a note on the pad he kept in the glove compartment, he climbed out of the cab and stuck it in the screen door Back in the truck, he started the engine, switched on the lights, and raced toward the highway

Twenty hthway Patrol cruisers, clustered on the opposite side of the highway, could only

Sick with dread, he parked on the shoulder of the road, climbed out of his truck, and crossed to the other side There were two patrol vehicles, the troopers standing together, looking down at so Sky couldn’t see until he came up even with them

The white Cadillac lay upside down, its cruht The driver’s side door hung open as if it had been forced Sky’s heart dropped There was no sign of Lauren

“Where’s the driver?” he asked one of the troopers

The man eyed Sky suspiciously “Do you know her?”

Sky struggled to downplay the anxiety that was eating hi for her Her nahter That’s his car”

The lawman nodded “We already ran the license, so we know that much She’s on her way to the hospital The ao”

“Then she’s alive?” He forced his voice past the icy fear that clutched his throat

“She hen they took her But she was unconscious Looked like she sing fro she’d been there before somebody saw the car and called it in”

Sky’s first impulse was to juht now he needed to know more about what had happened and why He stared down at the wrecked car The front end was battered but pretty much intact From the doors on back, however, the Cadillac’s solid body had been crushed like a tin can

“That car didn’t just roll,” he said “Looks like it was hit froh to do a lot of dae”

“We figured the sa, an ani too fast to stop”

“Then where’s the truck? The driver had to have known he hit her Why would he leave?”