Alexander Sinclair Came Back to Fairview Hospital to Defend His Injured Wife Against Her Family’s Demands

“Not what your mother-in-law told the nurses.”

I gave him the count.

Twenty-seven fractures.

The swelling.

The deputy’s report with no photographs in it.

The printout from the nurses’ station.

Vance set something down on his end, a cup maybe, and stayed quiet long enough that I checked the line.

“The county won’t touch this,” he said.