Murder in a Pug's Eye (Cascade Canine Club Mysteries Book 2) by Rachelle Orcelletto

Author:Rachelle Orcelletto [Orcelletto , Rachelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

I audibly gasped. I couldn’t help it. Dr. Garcia looked up from Fern’s chart. Her face was drawn, tense. Was I imagining things, or was she avoiding my gaze? I couldn’t tell if she was angry or worried.

I showed her the controlled substance log.

“It was logged out as gabapentin,” I said. “You prescribed it, but it looks like Heather filled the prescription.”

Dr. Garcia stared at the entry for a long time, her expression still unreadable.

“A simple mistake,” she said finally, keeping her voice low. Her eyes searched the room for the Trailblazer representatives that had been milling around all morning.

“You think so?” I couldn’t remember Dr. Garcia ever giving Heather the benefit of the doubt. This seemed like a strange time to start.

“It was probably a busy day,” she said. “The medications do look similar.”

“But they’re kept on opposite ends of the clinic,” I said. “And the bottles don’t look anything alike.”

Dr. Garcia didn’t respond and continued to stare down at the logbook.

“The dog is really uncomfortable,” I said.

That seemed to bring her back to the present. She closed the drug log with a snap and scrawled a note on Fern’s chart.

“Get this drawn up,” she said. “I’m going to talk to the owner. The plan is to give the dog some injectable meds to make her more comfortable right now and then refill the prescription.”

Without even waiting for me to confirm that I understood, she handed me the chart and the logbook and marched toward the exam rooms. I chewed on my lower lip as I watched her disappear through the swinging door. I thought back to what Erica said the previous day about Dr. Garcia insisting on taking charge of the controlled drug logs because it was her license on the line. She seemed remarkably blasé about the whole situation.

I examined Fern’s chart. Dr. Garcia wrote a dose for buprenorphine, an injectable pain medication that was also kept in the controlled substance safe. After drawing up the medication and clearly labeling the syringe, I returned my attention to the bottle of gabapentin. If this really was just a simple mistake, and somehow Heather had mixed up amoxicillin and gabapentin, that would mean the gabapentin count would be off by 60, the number of pills in Fern’s prescription.

According to the drug log, of the single 500 count bottle of 300mg gabapentin in the clinic’s possession, there should be exactly 245 pills left. Which meant that I could expect there to actually be 305 pills in that bottle since Heather used amoxicillin instead.

I found the plastic tray and spatula the clinic used for counting out pills for prescriptions and dumped out the contents of the gabapentin bottle. At first glance it seemed like less than 305 pills, but of course I wasn’t going to stop there. Slowly and painstakingly, I counted each capsule. Sure enough, exactly 245 pills. Wanting to be doubly sure, I counted the contents of the bottle one more time. Same result.

Which begged the question: What happened to the sixty pills prescribed to Fern if they didn’t go home with her?

“Okay,” Dr.

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