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her that.  She spent most of her time in the library so she wasn't around much, which was fine with me.  It gave me more alone time with my boyfriend."
     
    "Did Mandy have a boyfriend?"
     
    "I thought so, but I never saw him.  She started staying out all night starting last April.  I thought maybe she was out with a boyfriend."
     
    "What's his name?"
     
    "I don't know," she answered with a huff.  "We didn't exactly run around in the same circles, if you know what I mean."
     
    Lane shot her another glare.  The more he learned about Mandy Morris, the angrier he became about how badly people had treated her.
     
    "Was she friends with anyone in your dorm?"
     
    "I don't think so.  She kept to herself."
     
    "You're not much help."
     
    "Does that mean you aren't buying me a latte?"
     
    Lane gulped down the rest of his espresso and rose to leave.  "That's right.  Your information is not all that valuable."
     
    He walked away and wondered how someone could be so self-involved as to not even wonder why a detective was asking questions about her roommate.  Did Mandy Morris have anyone in her life who cared about her?
     
     
     
    Lane purposely waited until midnight to visit the hospital where he thought Mandy delivered her baby.  He knew there were fewer employees on the night shift and he might get one of them to talk about Mandy Morris.  In addition, if he could find a birth certificate, he'd find the baby's father. 
     
    He headed toward the nurse's desk where two nurses worked on a computer.  They were so intent, neither saw him approach their area.  He watched the nurse closest to him.  She looked like she was in her thirties with highlighted brown hair shaped into a bob.  She wore glasses that kept sliding down her nose as she typed. Finally, she noticed him and jerked slightly in surprise.  She rose and approached him.  Her name tag read Danielle.
     
    "I'm sorry I didn't notice you.  I'm afraid visiting hours are over."
     
    "Not a problem.  I was enjoying watching you work, Danielle."  Lane gave her his best flirtatious smile and was pleased to see her blush.  He needed information from her that she was not supposed to give him and waiting weeks for a subpoena for Mandy's medical records was not an option.  Lane pulled out his badge as well as Mandy Morris's photo.
     
    "Do you remember this young lady?  She gave birth about six weeks ago?"
     
    She glanced at his badge then the photo.  She lingered more than a second as she eyeballed the photo, frowning slightly, and biting her lower lip.  In that moment, he knew from her body language she remembered Mandy.  She looked nervously over her shoulder at the other nurse who was ending a phone call.  A buzzer sounded from a patient's room and the other nurse responded she'd take care of it, and headed down the hall.
     
    "Danielle, I think you recognize Mandy Morris.  Why don't you tell me about it?"
     
    "I'm sorry..."
     
    "I'm Detective Lane Hansen. But you can call me Lane."  He reached for her hand to shake and squeezed it gently sending another blush to her face.  He shot her a reassuring smile.  "Tell me about Mandy."
     
    She glanced nervously over her shoulder obviously looking for the other nurse who was nowhere in sight.  "I remember her.  She had her baby boy here.  One night I overheard her crying and I went to her room.  I held that poor girl for fifteen minutes as she sobbed.  She wanted to hold her baby and she said the day nurse told her it wasn't a good idea since she was giving him up for adoption.  I went down to the nursery and brought him back to her.  She rocked him back and forth on the bed for hours.  I told her she could change her mind and keep him.  She said she didn't think the adoption agency would let her."
     
    "What's the name of the agency?"  Lane asked as he pulled out his notepad.
     
    "Forever Homes Adoption.  They're a new agency here with their own clinic and everything."
     
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