KING'S BAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
What happened in there? Ryan
wonders for the millionth time.
He can hear
his father's panicked
urgings replaying in his head: "We need to get out of here." It
was almost as if he knew the fire was going to happen ...
And then the way he sent Ryan to
check up on Brent -- why? The disdainful look Nick flashed him as they
waited for the firefighters to rescue Brent from the burning mansion had
suggested to Ryan that Nick didn't care one bit about Taylor's well-being.
But Dad's always got a motive,
Ryan's head reminds him.
He sighs and fixes his gaze through
the window at the figure lying motionless in the bed. He isn't sure if
he should be wishing for a recovery or a disaster.
Maybe if Dad would tell me something
every now and then ... He tells me he trusts me with business, but he never
trusts me with the truth--
"Ryan."
The sound of his name from behind
jars Ryan from his thoughts. He whips around instinctively.
"Andy," he says, so calmly that it
sounds to his own ears -- and Andy's, he's certain -- as though he is trying
too hard.
"How are you feeling?" he adds, wanting
to erase that suspicious look from Andy's face and deciding that a punch
really isn't going to get him anywhere.
"I'm fine," Andy says. "I was here
most of the night, so I'm exhausted, but other than that I really shouldn't
complain. How about yourself?"
"Thrilled to have gotten out of there
alive. Just a couple of scrapes and bruises, but not bad at all. I--" He
glances back into Brent's room. "I read about Brent in the newspaper this
morning and I thought I would come by and visit. Is his wife
around or
anything?"
"I know she was here earlier, but
I haven't seen her around lately. Maybe she slipped off to shower and rest
a bit."
"I'm so glad that my father and
your mother made it out all right," Ryan says. "When my father said that he
wouldn't leave without her -- I thought for sure that was it for both of
them."
"I'm very grateful that Nick was
able to rescue her." Andy softens before Ryan's eyes, and it appears that
even the suspicion is receding. "I'm just hoping that Brent makes it through
this all right."
"Yeah, I asked Claire
about the prognosis--"
Suddenly Andy is on the offensive
again, but with much more aggression than before. His face hardens as he
growls, "You stay away from Claire!"
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