Intimate Honor by D.C. Stone

Author:D.C. Stone [Stone, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evernight Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Late the next night, Samantha fell into bed with a sigh. Thunder rumbled over her apartment, sounding loud upstairs. It had been a humid day, so her normally tame hair seemed to grow a mind of its own and poof in every which way. She’d ended up setting the mass in a messy bun atop her head and set in to get the day’s tasks completed.

It’d been a full day of appointments and well-care visits. The town seemed receptive to having a new vet, and some horror stories she heard about the surrounding town veterinarians had made the hairs on her arms stick up. From broken bones failing to set, to the wrong medications being administered, she’d made a vow to the town’s folks, and their furry friends, that she’d do everything in her power to be there for them all, to care for them all, and to provide the best medical support she could.

As a result of the busy day, she’d been late getting to the other tasks she had and by the time she and Hailey had managed to get all the rooms clean, she’d been a walking zombie. This would be an adjustment. That was what she kept telling herself, from the weather to the people, to the culture, her ever-growing worry regarding her pregnancy, and the new business pains. She couldn’t be happier that things were going so well, but she needed to think about getting another assistant. One that could hold down the fort when she went out on maternity leave.

She winced. She still needed to get in to see a doctor.

Good business practice would be to wait a few months to settle in before she decided to bring in an assistant, but she had a very real need for one, and would need someone who knew the ins and outs of her business before she went on leave. The thought of waiting even one or two more months before getting the additional support she needed now made her bones ache even more.

She closed her eyes on that last thought, only to have them jar open again what seemed to be minutes later. A loud boom shook the apartment, followed by a flash of light outside, then another boom.

The storm…

Wind howled outside her window and downstairs DA whined. She took a moment to glance at the clock, which was dark. Ugh. “Power must be out. Dang it.”

She had an emergency generator that would power certain pieces of necessary equipment and the alarm to the main clinic, but that generator didn’t extend to the upstairs. From the low whirring of an engine she heard between the rain and thunder, she knew it was on.

She needed to check on DA and the clinic. He normally came upstairs, as he’d graduated to sleeping upstairs, but he wasn’t in his usual spot. When she’d gone to sleep, he’d been beside her bed deep in doggy dreamland.

Slipping out of bed, she grabbed for her pants. Because of the darkness

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