Ms. Calculation by Danica Winters

Author:Danica Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The clinic was locked and someone had taped a closed sign to the door in between two plastic Santa decals. Wyatt was surprised at the lack of activity. He would have thought that, even with Bianca’s death, the show would have needed to go on at her clinic. Animals always needed tending and phones would always ring. Yet the place was eerily quiet.

“Is this how the place normally is?” Wyatt asked as Gwen stopped beside him.

She shook her head. “No, but with everything that’s been happening...someone must have let the employees know they weren’t to come in.” She walked around the side of the building toward the barn that normally housed the large animals that her sister couldn’t see in the small clinic. “Even the barn’s empty. That’s strange.”

“She had been working, right?”

Gwen shrugged. “As far as I know, but lately Bianca had been off. And the more and more I see, I guess I can understand why.”

“You think it’s possible someone just came in and cleared out the animals after they found out what happened?”

“For sure, but I don’t know where they would have taken the animals that were in more serious condition. But maybe she didn’t have any super serious cases or something.”

Wyatt nodded. There was something wrong about the place. If some well-meaning person had taken the animals, he would have thought they would have left a note or something, but there was nothing besides the sign on the front door to let anyone know what was going on.

“I think you should wait in the car,” he said, motioning toward his patrol unit. “Let me clear the building, then I’ll come get you.”

“There’s no way I’m going to let you go in there alone. Besides, there’s nothing to worry about.” She peered in the front picture window with her hand over her eyes in an attempt to shield the evening sun from her eyes.

“Anything?” he asked as she turned back to him.

“I can’t see.” She shook her head. “Hold on,” she said, reaching down into her pocket and drawing out a key ring that was chock-full of a variety of brass and aluminum keys. “I think she gave me a key in case I ever needed it. I don’t think this is what she had in mind at the time, but...” She flipped through the keys and stopped at a brass one the same color as the doorknob.

She slipped the key into the lock and clicked it open. The door opened with a long, shrill squeak. For a moment, Gwen stood there just staring. Wyatt moved closer to her, trying to see what she was looking at.

“Holy...” he said, looking in.

There was dog food strewn across the floor, and all the papers that normally sat on the counter were thrown around the room. Every picture was crooked or had been taken off the wall and tossed on the floor. The receptionist’s computer screen was cracked and the keyboard was hanging over the edge of the desk by its cord—it made the shrill tone of a phone that had been off the hook for too long.

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