“HERE YOU GO, honey,” said the young nurse as she set a plastic glass of water on the bedside table for me. “The doctor will be in soon.”
“Thanks.” I picked up the glass and sipped the water, even though I wasn’t thirsty anymore. They’d given me fluids and plenty of water to drink since I was brought in a few hours ago. I just needed something to do with my hands while I lay in this bed, waiting for news about my parents.
I stared at the fat snowflakes drifting down outside my window without really seeing them. The last four hours had been a crazy blur of activity from the moment the Agency had raided Rogin’s house. My parents and I had been whisked off to the hospital in ambulances, where we had been admitted immediately into emergency. I was sure someone had pulled strings when I wa
