Chapter 3
Dr. Marc Elias, part-time Animal Control Chief and full-time private veterinarian, lingered at the sink, washing his hands. He’d cringed when he saw his last client of the day being escorted to an exam room. If he believed in karma—which he didn’t—he’d wonder what he’d done to deserve this. A half-hysterical Myrtle McCracken and her two little darlings was a hard penance at the end of a brutal workday that had begun before five a.m.
The pre-dawn emergency had been a false alarm. But the three emergencies after it had been all too real. As well as the string of difficult clients and more difficult surgeries. All topped off by having to politely discourage the two local mothers who still clung to the hope that a six foot two, brown-eyed, well-built veterinarian could be coaxed fr
