Security footage was already being reviewed.

Police had been contacted immediately.

The hospital was locked into an emergency missing-child response.

This was not a child slipping unseen through a window.

Someone had manipulated a system designed to make a transfer look legitimate.

That frightened me more.

PART 6 — GARRETT

The elevator doors opened on eight.

Garrett stood near Room 814 talking to two security officers.

He looked twenty years older.