Chapter 48

• “Sometimes the truth hides in plain sight, only waiting for the heart to catch up with the eyes.”
• Alexander Steel stepped through the glass doors of the hospital with a tired look on his face and a sliver of hope still tucked somewhere behind his eyes. The events of the past twenty-four hours hadn’t left his mind for even a second, and though he’d told himself not to get too attached, here he was again—heart in hand, walking into a building he had no business being in, searching for a little girl who had somehow wrapped herself around his soul in record time.
• He moved straight to the front desk, where a nurse in a pale blue scrub top greeted him with a polite nod. “Good morning, sir. How can I help you?”