Chapter 27

We arrived to the clinic and parked. Seth and Robert heartily greeted several other people walking into the building. I had forgotten they had all been at working here for several weeks. Madonna, my old medical assistant, approached and threw her arms around me. I saw three sets of eyes turn yellow at the movement and the four in the Suburban started to get out.

"Oh - My - God, what happened to you?" she gushed as I tried to give everyone an 'it's okay' look. "I mean like one minute you are here, then you've quit, and then you're back part time. You have missed so much!" she finished as she pulled me toward the building. "And your hands, have you been fighting with someone or what?" she asked catching my wrist and examining it.

I launched into my lie and she bought it as did everyone else I told it to.

Almost everybody at the clinic was friendly and congenial with me like before. The only people that wouldn