Chapter 2Dawn was still a couple of hours away when I pulled into the parking area behind the building that housed WBIS headquarters, but the lights illuminating it made it easy to see where I was going.
Had it really been such a good idea to come in to work today? I could have called in sick, and I was pretty sure I wouldn’t have been questioned about it. The last time I’d taken a sick day had been back in January, when that bug had been going around, but before that…It had been because of that damned “accident.”
I sighed. I’d been raised with too strong a work ethic.
I got out of my car, holding the bags with sausage McMuffins and two coffees—one black, the other regular. I’d stopped by a twenty-four hour McDonald’s to pick up breakfast. Once I pressed the fob to engage the locks, I w
