Chapter 3
Saturdays were easy days at Heartline Animal Clinic, and I never minded working them. That day it was especially true, as my four-hour shift would be over in a blink of an eye, and then I’d be free until the day after Christmas. I worked Christmas Eve the year before, so I got to take this one off.
I was killing time so I wouldn’t arrive too early, but there was nothing left to do. I had watered the Christmas tree and attached the lights to a timer so they’d come on a couple of minutes before I got home. Safer that way, and I would be able to walk in to a happily lit tree. I even had my playlist of Christmas carols queued up so I could hit the button as soon as I got home. Then I’d enjoy a mug of peppermint hot chocolate and start my holidays off right.
Screw it. I was too res
