There were no other patients in the emergency room, and Jaeger and Betty Walsh stood sentinel outside the last bay. The hospital bed was enclosed with a thick blue curtain, and there was no one else to be seen. The lights were dim, and distant sounds of monitors beeped. An air conditioner or rooftop machine of some other kind groaned through the vents. It was like I had just stepped back in time. Nothing in the emergency room had changed since the last time I’d been there—except the presence of Jaeger Knudsen and Betty Walsh. The full force of the antiseptic hospital aroma that I had come to expect hit my nose. It seemed thicker with ammonia than I remembered, and my eyes started to water almost immediately. I was sure the reaction was from the smell; I’d done everything I could to hold myself together. This is a mistake. I’ll just pack Hank up and take him home where he belongs. Jaeger looked up as I rushed down the corridor toward him.
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