“Consistent with what?” Kyle lowered the phone.

“With what actually happened, Brian.

Reporters will be everywhere.” I was too exhausted to argue, but I stored the sentence away.

For the first time, his attention seemed fixed less on Rachel’s survival than on who would tell the story.

PART 3

By midnight, the hospital had moved Rachel to intensive care.

Her heart was beating without the emergency medications that had helped stabilize her earlier, but she remained on a ventilator.

Dr.