Mitchell is ordered to stay at least five hundred feet away from his daughter, her school, and her medical team.”

Arthur Hayes leaned over to whisper in Daniel’s ear, but Daniel didn’t turn his head or answer.

Marcus calmly gathered his yellow legal pads, tapped them twice on the oak table to line up the edges, and put them in his briefcase.

At twenty past eleven, I stepped off the hospital elevator on the fourth floor, my leather purse over my shoulder.

The hallway smelled of pine sanitizer and fresh floor wax, and the overhead fluorescent lights hummed softly as I walked down the corridor toward the post-anesthesia care unit.