Chapter Twenty-The Present Day

Chapter Twenty - Remy

"Hanes, you got a phone call."

I felt in my pocket for my phone, realizing it wasn't there before I climbed down the ladder from the roof.

My boss handed me his work phone, and made a gesture for me to wrap it up. Roger was a no-nonsense kind of man. It'd been a good few months since I started, but I didn't want to do anything to jeopardize my position.

"Hello?"

"Remington."

"Jane, baby, what is it? You know my boss gets pissed when I'm on the phone—,"

"Mrs. Johns is in the hospital about to die."

My hammer fell to the ground. Die? Was she sick? Has there been an accident? "What? How do you—,"

"She called me and asked for us to come see her quickly." Jane's voice broke at the end. She must not have long.

"I didn't even know she was sick, what's the matter with her?"

"I don't know, but we need to go see her now."

"Okay, which hospital?"

I flew from the outskirts of Dallas toward the Baylor Scott & White Medical Center uptown. Jane met me downstairs in the lobby an