My Alpha Mate Secretly Got My Sister Pregnant novel · Chapter 24 of 48
Chapter 24: The Ledger
I closed my hand around the key.
"Why give it to me?" I said. "You could have taken it to the Council yourself."
"I told you." He looked at the ceiling. "Nobody's going to believe an old man who sold poison for forty years."
"They might believe your handwriting."
"That's what I'm hoping."
I put the key in my bra, under my scrubs, where I'd kept my tips in nursing school.
At the desk, I asked the charge nurse to keep room twelve off the board.
She didn't ask why.
"Anybody comes asking," I said, "he isn't here."
At six-fifty, a Redmoor truck pulled into the visitor lot.
I watched it from the staff room window.
Garrett's mother got out in her camel coat and walked to the front doors.
I heard her voice at the desk a minute later, polite and carrying.
She was looking for an elderly gentleman. A family friend. He might have come in with burns.
"No one like that tonight, ma'am," the charge nurse said.
Garrett's mother stood at the desk a moment longer.
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