Only one thing seemed clear to her at this point. If the assault on her was a warning, it was also, in essence, a confession that the near-fatal hit-and-run was not accidental. Dimitri had been right from the beginning, and the twins had been wrong not to listen to him. Now they needed to work together if they were to identify the motive and the person behind the first attempt on Petros's life, as well as the attempt in the hospital. It seemed likely that the man in the parking lot and the orderly in the hospital were the same. Who had hired him? Thea also needed help understanding how much immediate danger she was in, and also Petros. It wasn't that simple to get away with killing a patient who was on constant monitoring, assisted ventilation, and close observation. Of course, even with the sort of excellent CPR that most ICU nurses were trained to perform, there was always a bullet, a garrote, or drugs that, if given intravenously and in a large enough dosage, could stop a heart irretrievably.
