“Home.

She said the nurse asked for one item from the house.”

“The nurses here don’t ask.

They ask whichever parent is standing in front of them.” She looked at the wall clock.

“It’s twenty to nine.

Nothing in Lake Forest opens before eight, and there’s been a unit on that door since midnight.”

“So either the officer let her in, or he never saw her.”

“That’s the second question I’ll be putting to him.” She turned the notebook around.