Saddled with Murder by Eileen Brady

Author:Eileen Brady
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2020-08-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

When I dressed for work the next morning and reached for my scrubs, I realized how much science and logic were my refuge. The reading with Delphina had put that into perspective. Not for me were vague predictions of future adventures.

As for having a special power, everyone had a special power—they only needed to look deep inside themselves to find it.

The best thing that came out of that night? I started thinking about my bucket list.

* * *

Even Cindy’s rigid scheduling didn’t help during morning appointments as I tried unsuccessfully to keep on time. One of our patients needed much more time than usual, so each appointment after them ran a little late. Mari worked at breakneck speed, trying to catch up with the increased lab work, zipping past me toward the treatment room. That’s why it surprised me to get a non-business-related text from Cindy.

WHATS YOUR DATING STATUS?

I shook my head in astonishment. Another topic to bring up in our staff meetings. Inappropriate texting. Trying to put an end to speculation, I texted back.

OPEN TO INTERPRETATION

She answered back with a smiley-face emoji.

* * *

Finally caught up, I was halfway down the hallway to my next appointment when Mari waylaid me.

“Why don’t you go comb your hair, or put a little lipstick on,” she suggested. In the six months I’d been working at the Oak Falls Animal Hospital, this was the first time anyone suggested a makeover between clients. Something strange was brewing.

“Mari,” I hissed, “what are you up to?”

Had they stashed Luke somewhere in the building hoping for a Christmas engagement? Or somehow pulled Jeremy back in the picture for a good old college try?

My technician put her finger to her lips, indicating there was someone waiting in the exam room right next to us.

I took the chart out of her hand, knocked on the door, and walked in, sure I was being set up. No such luck. The astonishment on Devin Popovitch’s face probably reflected mine.

“You’re the F-150 with the clogged fuel line, right?” he said.

His eyes tracked down to my doctor’s white jacket embroidered with my name. I watched his lips move as he sounded out the letters.

“And you’re the old dog whose owner died and now is having accidents in the house?”

We both laughed. “Well, the truck is working a lot better.”

“The dog isn’t.” He lifted an elderly gray terrier mix onto the exam table. “I saved some of her pee.” With a flourish a ziplock bag half full of a familiar yellow liquid emerged from his leather messenger bag.

I considered him very brave to lug that around with him. Or very foolhardy.

As if reading my mind, he said, “I double-bagged it.”

* * *

While completing my exam on the dog, it registered again what an attractive man Devin appeared to be both physically and personally. Given his lightly quiet, unassuming but confident demeanor, I could see why Raeleen had stuck around Oak Falls to be with him. But why did he stick with her?

Questions I couldn’t and wouldn’t ask while examining their dog.

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