Chapter 44
He pulled out his phone and made another call, quieter this time, voice tightly controlled.
"I need everything you can find on three students," he said the moment it connected. "Marcus, and two others I'll get names for. Financial records too. Someone paid for this. I want to know who."
He hung up and sank slowly into one of the hard plastic chairs lining the hallway, elbows braced against his knees, staring blankly at the closed doors Luca had disappeared behind.
He stayed there the entire night.
Nurses came and went, offering quiet, cautious updates every so often. Broken leg, requiring surgery. Several cracked ribs. A concussion, along with the deep laceration above his eye that had needed stitches. Internal bruising they were still monitoring closely. He would live, the
