The Baby Bargain by Jennifer Apodaca

Author:Jennifer Apodaca
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jennifer Apodaca, baby, bargain, Marines, once, Megan, young, Adam, Waters, Brady, Celtic, fire, Ravens, cove, Semper Fi, USMC, Cole, reunited lovers, blackmail
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Adam’s attitude change was still on Megan’s mind when she pulled into the parking lot of her veterinary practice. But that quickly shifted when she spotted two police cars.

Her heart thumped in her chest. Oh God. This couldn’t be a coincidence. Four cops turned to watch her. With them were Jillian, her receptionist, Dara, her vet technician, and Trina, her assistant. The veterinary practice was a four-woman operation. She sent cases beyond her capabilities to Lawrence’s Raven’s Cove Animal Hospital.

Had the cops questioned her employees about her? Her mouth was so dry, she could barely swallow. Would they send two police cars just to ask her and her employees questions? She parked the car, fumbled with her purse, and stepped out. The four cops kept watching her, while her employees stood huddled together, wearing their soft-colored smocks and looking worried.

Megan had no choice but to cross the parking lot. She swept her gaze over the one-story, standalone building she leased, trying to get a sense of the situation. The front windows all looked fine, the door secured. Finally, she approached the officers. She recognized John and his partner, along with a third male officer and the sheriff, Nadine Bolen. Megan and Nadine had gone to school together. Her confusion mounting, she forced herself to say, “Good morning. Has something happened?”

“Dr. Young,” Nadine said, “we have a search warrant for your office.”

Dr. Young? The formality caught her off guard. But the rest of Nadine’s sentence was even more alarming. Search warrants happened on TV, not in a small town like Raven’s Cove, and certainly not to her. “Are you serious?”

Nadine nodded and held out the papers. “It’s all outlined here. Please unlock the door.”

Megan shuffled through her keys until she found the right one, feeling as though she was moving underwater. A search warrant. The words played over and over while she opened the door.

The strong ammonia scent of urine hit her first.

Wrong. That was wrong. There shouldn’t be any animals in the clinic.

“Stand aside, Dr. Young.” The sheriff walked in, flanked by her cops.

Megan looked at Jillian, Trina, and Dara. “We didn’t have any animals kenneled here. What’s going on?”

They all stared back, appearing as confused as she felt. Trina was pale, but managed to shake her head, silently confirming there hadn’t been any patients in the clinic last night. She was the one who often stayed overnight with a kenneled animal, needing the bonus Megan paid her to do it.

Megan hated this unnamed fear and indecision. She didn’t know what to do. She could only think of one thing—

Adam.

She dug in her purse for her cell phone and called him.

“Meg, something wrong?” he answered.

“I think so.” She looked into her reception area, with all the brown chairs and padded benches and easy-clean tiled floors. Pictures of animals were hung on the walls, along with a ”Ten Ways To Love Me Back” poster about what dogs need from their owners. She loved her vet practice. Treating animals filled some need inside of her.

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