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“We don’t know how you got here, Ms. LaPorte. You walked into Emergency and collapsed. Did someone bring you? Did you drive yourself?”

Gemma moved her head slowly from side to side and felt a twinge of pain. “I don’t remember.”

Will paused, regarding her with dark, liquid eyes. She could sense his strength and knew he was good at his job. A tracker. Someone who never gave up. Someone dogged and relentless. She shivered involuntarily as he said, “You don’t remember the circumstances that brought you here.”

“No.”

“What’s your last memory?”

Gemma thought about it a minute. “I was looking out the window and thinking we were drowning in rain. It was a downpour. The dirt was like concrete and the water was pouring over it in sheets.”

The deputy was silent for so long that Gemma felt her anxiety rise. She sensed that he was deliberating on an answer.

“What?” she asked.

“It hasn’t rained for three days…”