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though he hadn’t been on the up-and-up with them, it had nothing to do with the killings. He was hiding something else. Something more…personal.
    When Hernandez dismissed them, she rose and followed David from the office, the pounding in her head intense and almost debilitating.
    â€œDiana?” David asked as he noted her discomfort.
    She nodded and forced a smile. “A bad headache. And even if Hernandez hadn’t ordered it, I’d be heading to Maggie’s, anyway, to have her check me out.”
    David smiled a broad ear-to-ear grin at the mention of the staff physician. “Mind if I tag along?”
    His eagerness was a balm. She had long hoped that her friend Maggie would get together with her very nice, but slightly inept partner. “Sure.”
    â€œGreat,” he said, and followed her as she walked down the hall and to the elevator.

Chapter 4
    D iana entered Maggie’s office and found her friend at her desk, reviewing a file. Diana stopped and David nearly ran into her back. She shot him a look over her shoulder, telling him to cool it. “Hi, Maggie. Came by for a quick checkup,” she said.
    Maggie rose and slinked her way around her desk. She had the kind of walk women envied and men drooled over. With her five-foot-ten-inch height and slim build, she looked more like a model than a physician. “Heard you had a small altercation,” she said, and then leaned forward, to take a better look. “I can see you had more than a little physical contact.”
    Diana shrugged it off, but David piped in from behind her, “She was out cold for about five minutes.”
    Diana glared at him again and he backed off, taking a seat on the sofa in Maggie’s office.
    â€œThanks, David. At least one of you has some sense,” Maggie said with a smile that had David blushing in response.
    Maggie skewered Diana with her sharp gaze. “You and I obviously need to talk about what happened.”
    Diana didn’t argue and followed Maggie into the examining room, where she jumped up onto the table and waited as Maggie slipped on a lab coat, grabbed some things and walked over.
    â€œWere you really out for five minutes?” Maggie questioned as she plucked a penlight from her jacket pocket, flipped it on and shined it in Diana’s eyes. Like last night, Diana pulled away from it.
    Maggie shut it down and placed her hands on her hips. “Sensitivity, huh? Bet you have a monster of a headache, as well.”
    â€œYeah, and a little fuzziness every now and then, but don’t worry. Another doctor took a look at me last night and said it was a mild concussion,” she reassured.
    Maggie harrumphed, reached out and gently applied pressure to the area on Diana’s cheekbone and jawline where Latimer’s forearm had connected. Diana winced, but the pain was minor. “This doctor let you go home without—”
    â€œShe gave me instructions and my brother dutifully woke me every few hours. Needless to say, I’m a little wiped today,” Diana complained.
    Maggie said nothing else, just grabbed a pad and wrote out a prescription. She roughly tore it off and handed the slip to Diana.
    Diana eyed the paper with confusion and a little trepidation. “You’re not going to say anything? Not going to warn me about—”
    â€œDoing something as stupid as taking on a man twice your size and failing to go to a hospital like any reasonable person should have? No, of course not. You’re a big girl, right? You know exactly what you’re doing.”
    â€œMama Maggie, I appreciate your concern—”
    â€œYou’re as pigheadedly macho as any of those men out there, Di. And that’s not a good thing,” Maggie said as she began her tirade again. “And what kind of doctor—”
    â€œHer name was Danvers. Melissa, I think,” Diana said.
    â€œI had a professor named Danvers in med school. He had a