Not even five minutes after she’d spoken to Daniel McKellen, Rafe and Vince Alcardi—Cherise’s fiancé and the hospital’s head of security—had appeared in her department.
Very quietly, they’d told Wanda they needed Annie to meet them in Rafe’s office as soon as possible regarding a former patient. As soon as possible wasn’t really her choice. Everyone knew that Rafe meant immediately.
Annie slipped up the back stairwell toward his office, nerves causing her stomach to clench and her hands to slick. Something had happened. She wasn’t stupid. Annie strongly suspected she had really stepped into it this time. Just what the it was, she wasn’t fully sure of.
Rafe and Vince met her in the hall corridor that led to Rafe’s office.
“What is this about?” Annie asked. At first, she’d been unbelievably nervous whenever around Rafe. The man was six-foot-six, strongly muscled, and not exactly brimming with good cheer. That had changed when he’d nearly died saving Jillian. Now she considered him a friend, as well as her boss.
She’d been a bridesmaid at the man’s wedding.
“I spoke with Elliot. He wants to speak with you about something private. Something with Officer Royce.”
“She’s in serious danger, isn’t she?”
Rafe hesitated. “I’m not sure. But we’re not going to wait around to find out.”