CHAPTER SIXTEEN
When Keri came to, she found herself in the back of an ambulance for the second time in less than two hours. This time she was lying on a stretcher. Everything from her sternum to her belly button ached. A female EMT was hovering over her, studying her vitals on the monitor nearby.
“How long have I been out?” Keri asked hoarsely, startling the woman, who didn’t realize her patient was now conscious.
“Less than five minutes, at least based on the timing your colleague gave me,” she said, nodding at the back door of the ambulance.
Keri glanced up to see Castillo standing just outside the ambulance’s back door. She was talking to someone Keri couldn’t see and her left arm was in a sling.
“Jamie,” she called out as loud as her voice would allow. The younger officer turned
