Chapter 7

Once he admitted ignorance to the rest of their questions, they would have ignored him, but some devil inside him insisted on seeing Dennis.

“I’m sorry, Sir, the doctors are with him now, you can’t see him until they finish,” the medical assistant told him.

“I need to see him,” he demanded.

“I understand, sir. As soon as the doctors give permission.”

“I’ll wait,” he said, and wandered off to get a cup of coffee.

It wasn’t long before a nurse appeared.

“Mr. Ferone?” she asked.

“Yes,” Luca said, jumping up, confused by his own eagerness to see the man.

“The admin said you waited. You retrieved him from the water?” she asked, briskly walking down the corridor with Luca following.

“Yes, I found him on North Beach,” Luca replied, giving no more information than he had to give. They walked in silence down the row of curtained off rooms until they hit the second to last cubicle.