CARL

I kept looking at the empty bedspace as if Linda was going to magically materialize from it but with the look of things, she was long gone. How did this even happen? I hadn't told Alma but I knew Linda was fine since I passed the night in my car outside the hospital.

I was first to hear from the nurses that she was okay by midnight when I'd come to check but Alma and Beverly were fast asleep then. I didn't even blame her, the stress from traveling and everything else must have taken a ...