We stepped out after dinner. The sky had already gone dark. Lawrence walked me to my front door. He stopped me suddenly and said, "If you're looking for a business partner, I'm in. We could open a clinic—you know the medical side, I know the money side. We'd hire good doctors who got pushed out of public hospitals, and go head to head with guys like Wendell."
I blinked in surprise. I'd had the exact same idea back when I ran the pharmacy in my past life—I'd just hit a lot of dead ends doing it alone. "How'd you know I wanted to do something like that?"
Lawrence said, "Because when you called off the engagement, there was this fire in your eyes. It wasn't heartbreak—it was relief, pure and simple. People like that don't go home and cry about it."
I stood there under the streetlight and s
