CHAPTER 20
Kennedy blinked her eyes open. Why did they hurt so bad? What was wrong with her contacts?
“Ow.”
She tried to sit up.
Ow.
A man set his hand on her shoulder. “Easy there. Don’t move too fast.”
“Where am I?” Had she swallowed boiling water? Why did it feel like her lungs were burning?
Burning.
She threw his hand aside and sat up. The entire room spiraled in front of her. “Where is she?”
“Shhh.” He put his finger to his lips like an over-doting nursery nanny. “You’re at the hospital. Everything’s going to be just fine.”
“Where is she?” Kennedy asked again.
“The girl who was kidnapped? She’s fine. She’s in another room waiting for her dad to fly in and pick her up. Everything’s fine.”
“No, it’s not,” Kennedy insisted. “Where’s Willow?”
A nurse in Snoopy scrubs walked o
