her with my own eyes was overwhelming.
I looked at the clock again, only two minutes had passed. This had been the longest twenty-four hours of my life and I hoped to never repeat it. I got up and started pacing, the sitting was driving me crazy.
“Here,” Bodie said handing me a cup of coffee. I was wired enough without the extra caffeine but having something in my hands helped a little. “Any news?” he asked.
I shook my head and started pacing again. Looking at the clock again only three more minutes had passed.
Karma’s phone rang and I heard her say “In the Emergency waiting room.”
A minute or so later, an elderly woman walked in and Karma ran over to her. Karma hugged her like her life depended on it.
“Where is she?” the woman said.
“Back there,” Karma said pointing to a set of double doors. “We haven’t been allowed to see her.”
“I’ll fix that,” the woman said and marched over to the desk.
A couple of minutes later the woman came back, took Karma’s hand and they were let into the doors.
“I take it that’s Kayleigh’s Nana,” Bodie stated.
“I would assume as much. God, it’s killing me, Bodie, I need to see her.”
“I’m sorry man. I can’t imagine how you must feel.”
“I can never repay you for finding her,” I told him.
“All I did was stare at a screen and press a few keys. West Security and the police did the hard work.”
“But without that app you put on her phone, they wouldn’t have known her location since Wes had turned off her GPS.”
Bodie just nodded because I think he didn’t know what to say. The app he’d installed would not only alert her if someone was trying to hack her phone but it also had a hidden feature that ran the GPS even when the user thought it was turned off. I was starting to think that more people needed that app. It had saved Kayleigh’s life.
Fifteen minutes later Karma came back out of the waiting room.
“They’ve knocked her out so she’ll get some rest and they’re going to move her to a room that’s not an emergency. Nana is going to sit with her until she wakes up. She suggested that we all get some rest since it looks like Kayleigh is going to be sleeping for a few hours.”
“I’m not going back to the University,” I said seriously.
“I’m not either. I was told there’s a hotel just a block from here. I thought we could crash there until Kayleigh wakes up. Nana said that she would make sure you get to see her when that happens.”
I reluctantly agreed. None of us had slept in over twenty-four hours and were exhausted. We walked the block to the hotel and checked into one room. Karma agreed to share a bed with Bodie. Not one sexual remark was said. That showed how tired we all were.
We got up to the room. I turned on the TV and took off my shoes and jeans. Bodie and Karma did the same and we all crawled into bed. Karma made sure her phone was turned all the way up, so one of us should hear it when Kayleigh’s nana called. I closed my eyes and sent up a thanks to whoever was listening that Kayleigh had been found safe.
Chapter 61
Kayleigh
The first sound I heard was beeping. I opened my eyes to see a white ceiling. I turned my head to see Nana asleep in a chair next to the hospital bed.
“Nana,” I said. It didn’t come out very loud so I tried again. “Nana.”
I saw her eyes open and then the tears started, from both of us. She came over and hugged me the best she could without pulling out any tubes.
“Oh honey,” she said, “you have no idea how good it is to see you.”
“I think I might have some idea. Do you know everything that happened?”
“I know what Karma and the police told me. I’m so sorry about what happened to you, my darling girl.”
“Is Wes really dead?”
“Yes. They told me he pulled out a gun and they weren’t going to take any chances so they shot him.”
“I think I should feel bad about that but I don’t.”
“You feel however you want to feel.”
“Where are Karma and Major?”
“I sent them to a hotel across the street to get some rest a few hours ago. They hadn’t slept since they figured out you were missing. I’ll call them right now and tell them you’re