Chapter 198

Her answer worried Laila even more, but she kept that to herself. “He needs antibiotics.”

“We have none. Even if I did, you know how he spits out medicine. He did it with his last dose of ibuprofen.”

A big reason Jorge had needed to go to the hospital, so he could have medicine intravenously. “Keep trying.”

“Of course. But what if I fail? What if his fever goes up again? Taking him to a doctor may give away our location.” Valeria dissolved into tears again.

Laila couldn’t leave her sister to handle this alone. “Where are you?”

“Lafayette, Louisiana. In an apartment.”

How many hundreds of miles away was that? Why had EM Security taken Valeria so far from her? “Hang on. I will be there as quickly as I can.”

She could help nurse Jorge and support her weary sister. Hopefully that would keep her nephew out of the hospital.

“Trees is bringing you here? Oh, thank goodness.”

“He has not said when. If he is not going straight there, I wil