Six weeks later, Mackenna was sitting in her old office going through the motions of doing her job and very much aware she was neglecting one file on her desk. Dulce’s billing had yet to be rectified but she was avoiding it. She’d been avoiding it for almost three and a half weeks.
She had flown back to Phoenix almost as soon as the doctor had cleared her to fly. Her employer hadn’t yet filled her position and the office had been a mess from temporary replacements who couldn’t do the job to her standards. The hospital was thrilled to have her back and had even given her a raise as they’d learned how valuable she was to them in the short time she was gone.
She had given her grandparents a quiet send off and during the entire process, she continued to remind herself of the doctor’s words t
