Chapter 3Jerry watched Bonnie nibble at the delicious taco salad Mercedes had fixed for their lunch. He could see his attention was making her uncomfortable, but something about Bonnie Verdugo fascinated him. Although she wasn’t hard to look at, there was more to her than rather exotic beauty. She was completely different from any woman he had ever encountered. It wasn’t simply her Mexican-American heritage, either. She really wasn’t anything like the other Latina nurses and nurse’s aides at Rio Vista hospital with whom he had regular dealings.
She shifted in her chair, a shadow of discomfort flitting across her mobile face. Glancing down, he saw she was trying to balance her right leg and its cumbersome splint across the left to keep pressure off her foot. Had he neglected to mention she
