" The paramedics arrived, took over, and stabilized her. Sean rode over in the ambulance while Michelle followed in her truck. Sean and Michelle were now in the waiting room at the hospital. They had been interrogated by both local Virginia police and federal authorities. They told some but not all of what they knew. It was fortunate that witnesses to the events at the mall had uniformly reported that the three dead men were the aggressors and that Sean and Michelle’s actions had been in self-defense, and had actually saved the life of one of the police officers. That still did not buy them many points, particularly with the Feds. A despondent Michelle looked up when she heard the door to the waiting room open. "

― David Baldacci , King and Maxwell (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #6)