hesitated.
“She already has two people with her.”
The couple.
My mind filled with every nightmare I had been trying not to imagine.
They had my mother’s ring.
They knew where she was.
And now they were sitting beside her hospital bed.
“You don’t understand,” I said. “Those people may have done something to her.”
The receptionist looked toward security.
I lowered my voice.
“Please. Let me see her. If I’m wrong, I’ll leave immediately. But if that woman is my mother…”
I couldn’t finish.
After a moment, she picked
