Ding Dong!! Is She Dead? by Alathia Morgan Read Free Book Online Page B

the sleeping nurses.
    He hid in the bathroom, while several people rushed past. He left the room once they were gone and snuck out the front door. He didn’t try to hide from the cameras because if anyone asked he had simply gone to visit his wife.
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    There were only a few people housed on this hallway and Megan was the only person with a serious diagnosis. So the discovery of Mike’s handy work might have gone unnoticed all night if one of the nurses from the other section had not called down to ask a question.
    When she didn’t get a response, she had gone to see what was going on. Seeing the nurses passed out in the break room, she pushed the emergency button which alerted security and called the police. After making sure both the nurses in the break room were still alive, they had found three more passed out behind the desk.
    Megan had passed out from lack of air, so when Mike had released her it took a few minutes to regain consciousness.
    Realizing that her throat was bruised, there was no way to get the attention of the people out in the hall. They were frantically trying to revive the passed out nurses and trying to make sense of the chaos.
    Her throat hurt so much that all she could do was whimper. She closed her eyes again knowing that someone would come to check on her. She was relieved that she could still breathe.
    The ER doctor went straight to Megan’s room assuming that this was because of her. Since everyone else was trying to check on the nurses, he was the first person to see the damage that Mike had cause in his short visit.
    Once, everyone had been triaged someone remembered that no one had checked on the patients and they hurried to make sure they were okay. Entering Megan’s room, they noticed all of the cords had been cut from the monitor which is why there had been no alert from Megan’s bed.
    The ER doctor walked closer and saw the handprints on Megan’s throat, but seeing that her chest was still moving up and down, the doctor was relieved that she was still breathing. Opening up her eyelids to make sure there was no brain damage, he was amazed to see that she was only resting and not unconscious.
    When she tried to talk it only came out in a small whimper, “Mike”, she pointed to her ring finger hoping that the doctor would know who she was trying to say did this to her.
    The police officers and then the state troopers arrived adding to the confusion. Nobody was exactly sure of what had happened except that Mike Butts had drugged the nursing staff and tried to kill his wife.
    The charge nurse had started calling in extra staff to take the place of those that were just now coming to. The officers began taking statements of everyone in the building that was conscious.
    For the first time ever in the small hospital’s history they instituted a security lockdown. They locked all the doors in and out of the building so that only the keypads could be used. The emergency room had a lounge that the injured could come in and out of, but they had to be let into the triage room and that was locked as well. There were more people in the building in the aftermath then there had been during daylight hours with all of the office staff combined.
    After checking the whole building to make sure that Mike was not hiding in any janitor closets, they considered it safe to resume operations. Each nurse that had been drugged was then placed in a bed to be checked over to make sure that they were recovering.
    Officer Grayson had been called in as Megan’s personal security for the rest of the night. There would be no one in or out of Megan’s room unless she gave the okay to proceed.
    The state guys were taking pictures and statements, but the only thing they had to go on was the pizza delivery that had been brought to the nurses about 10:30 p.m.. When questioned they all agreed that they had not ordered pizza, but the delivery guy had said it was a thank you from the guys at the EMS