Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care
Five fifty-two.
The fax line downstairs closed at seven.
I left the tray where it sat and went out the side door by the dish return so I wouldn’t have to walk past their table again.
Marisol Herrera was at the elevator bank with a page in each hand, smoothing the top one flat with her thumb.
“Detective Ruiz faxed this down at four,” she said.
“He called the ward line first.