Ding Dong!! Is She Dead? (6 page)

Wondering how he had found out where they were, she stayed as quiet as possible. Waiting for him to make a move before calling the police, Allie hoped that he would do something foolish so that they could lock him up.

Allie wanted to be certain that he meant them harm before she alerted the police. All Allie needed was for the police to show up with him gone. This time he went to his car and got in driving away while looking at the apartment the whole time. Just glad that he was really gone, Allie sank to the floor in relief that she had not called the police.

This time he left without doing anything threating, so it was a good thing that she had waited. It seemed like Mike was trying to get Allie to make a wrong move, so it would look like she was just crying wolf. The police might not show up the next time when she and Sally really needed it.

Allie carried the still sleeping Sally to her room laying her on the bed. She hoped Mike wasn’t coming back and to be on the safe side she pushed a chest of drawers in front of the back door.

She turned everything off in the living room and grabbed the back packs, placing them next to the bed. Taking a last bathroom break, she closed the door to her bedroom, putting a chair under that door as well. She didn’t even think to wonder where Mike might have gone till the next day.

Chapter 6

Megan had been taking the medication only when necessary or after everyone left so that she could get some rest. She figured that if she got more rest, she would get better faster and be able to get out of there sooner. She had been sleeping when she felt someone standing over her.

Most of the time when the nurses came in and out they moved around and made some noise. They quickly checked her vitals or were replacing the IVs. To have someone just standing there made Megan uncomfortable even in her sleep.

She rolled over so that she was facing the person standing there. She tried to keep breathing evenly so that they thought she was still asleep. Looking thru her lashes, she noticed that it was Mike.

Having a good idea of what he would try if she were awake, she simply kept laying still hoping he would leave if she wasn’t conscious.

He left her side and pulled a chair up to the side of her bed; resting his elbows on his knees. He tapped his fingers in front of his scruffy chin, seeming to wondering where to begin the conversation.

Talking to her in a soft, yet admonishing voice, “How could you do this to me? What were you thinking? I know that you were hurt and I’m so sorry that happened.” He paused, sitting up straight in the chair.

He looked at the length of her bruised body, taking in the bandages on her head and the IV. running to her arm.

“If you had just woken me up then none of this would have happened. How could you turn me in to the police? Men that I work with handcuffed me and put me in a cell.”

“This is wrong, Megan. I will have to discipline you better in the future. Sally needs a mother that knows how to obey instructions and not piss off the man of the house. I have trained you for the last 10 years and yet this is the way you repay me. Oh, Megan, I had such high hopes for you.” Mike spoke with increasing venom, his true feelings overshadowing any concern he might have had.

Megan listened in growing horror. What did he mean to obey him more than she already did? She wasn’t his slave. She hadn’t asked to be beaten. It wasn’t her fault he had fallen asleep in the truck.

On the other hand, he had spent so much time training her to be the wife and mother that he needed her to be to do his job properly. She should have been watching for him to come home. She had known that he would be mad when she had finally gone to sleep about 4 am.

She alerted the nurse by pressing the call button, feeling safe.

“Mike, I am so sorry about this, I didn’t mean for it to go this far. Can you ever forgive me?”

Megan really wanted his forgiveness since she could tell he hadn’t really meant to hurt her. She was convinced she had let him down and caused his outburst. It had been her fault for trying to run from her punishment, she could have waited to take the beatings so they wouldn’t have been as bad.

Mike had jumped up when Megan started speaking and came to stand by the bed.

“Megan, I can’t forgive you until you have taken back what you’ve told them. Everything that you tell others about me will only make matters worse. We can tell them that you were just confused and it was someone else that came in our house.”

“All those lies that woman, Allie, has been filling your head with, they are just not true. You can come home and my fellow officers will help me locate this scum that did this to my wife. No, one should be allowed to punish you except for me.”

Mike took her bandaged arm and instead of being gentle, he grabbed hold of her wrist bringing her arm up into the light from the bathroom.

“What have you done Megan? You told me that you were sorry, but you have pressed the call button that will bring the nurse in here.”

Watching the rage build, Megan realized that no matter what she said or did this man would never take her back without seriously making her pay the price for coming to the hospital.

Wondering where the nurse could be, Megan began to worry that they wouldn’t reach her.

Mike decided to go ahead and kill her. Moving his hand from her wrist to her throat, he smiled gloatingly.

“I knew that this apology was too good to be true coming from such a lying bitch as you. I cut the cords on the buttons before you woke up.”

“There won’t be any help coming to rescue you. They are all in the break room having a short naptime. I put a small amount of powder into their tea and on their pizza so that when they went to take a break it would knock them out for a time so that we could have a real heart to heart talk.” Mike smiled as Megan eyes widened in terror.

“I knew that you were up to no good. Did you know that they put me in a cell block with other criminals? Guys that I have hunted and worked hours on the cases that put them in jail and brought them to justice. Megan, Megan, did you really think that you would be safe from me?”

His hand let up slightly from around her neck, allowing her to take a deep breath. Seeing that she wasn’t going to answer him, he squeezed harder putting the other hand around her neck totally encompassing her throat. He continued squeezing until he heard sounds out in the hall and realized that someone had stumbled upon 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 station.

Free pizza was not something that happened very often so they had all had several pieces and the nurses who had been out the longest had eaten the most.

Not sure if he timed it or had just waited to see when they collapsed, they were certain that he had planned this so that he could have plenty of time to hurt his wife.

Officer Long wasn’t able to blame Megan for causing this incident. The attitude of Mike’s fellow officers had changed and they realized they might not be able to ignore his actions any longer.

There was a definite problem with his thinking, but at least he hadn’t killed the nurses yet so that was in his favor. Those that hadn’t believed Megan when she said Mike had hurt her could tell that the bruises on her throat were not from her own hands.

The doctors were going back and forth between rooms trying to make sure that everyone was taken care of. Megan had passed out in the beginning, but with all of the commotion from the officers and doctors she had come to fairly quickly. Knowing that it was painful to talk, they got her a marker board so that she could write down what happened.

When they put the marker in her hand, she moaned in pain and they realized that her wrist had been broken as well. Mike’s hand had crushed the bones in her wrist. Placing the marker in her other hand, she wrote down as many details as she could.

It was hard not only to remember what he said to her, but to set aside the feelings of guilt that she felt for causing this situation. It made it difficult to blame him for his actions.

They brought several different machines in the room and took a few x-rays of her wrist and throat to make sure that she would heal and didn’t any need surgery. The bone was only snapped in her wrist and her throat would stay sore and bruised for a while, but she would regain the ability to talk. He hadn’t crushed her windpipe, thank God.

They also sent undercover officers to stay in the parking lot of Allie’s house so that Mike couldn’t do anything to them. Everyone was assuming that Mike wouldn’t do anything to hurt Sally, but they hadn’t thought he would try to kill his wife in the hospital either.

Having an officer at Allie’s might not stop him from trying to take Sally with him wherever he was going to be hiding at, but at least he would think about it.

Officer Grayson took the chair that Mike had sat in and pulled it around the hospital bed toward the left so that she could see anyone that walked into the room.

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