CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Nathan was scheduled to meet Dr. Rachelle Overtin at her office in Lubbock at ten a.m., so he was up before sunrise. He packed a small bag, kissed Bella tenderly, and went down the hall to kiss a still sleeping Charlie on the forehead before he headed to his car to enter the Lubbock County Medical Examiner’s address into his navigation system.
It’s a five-hour drive, he confirmed when his GPS displayed its search results. Better stop on the way and get coffee and breakfast.
A brief detour through the closest open drive-thru netted him both. He took a moment to rearrange his breakfast sandwich’s wrapper to make it easier to eat while driving, then pulled out of the lot and back into the slowly increasing early morning traffic.
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With Steve’s sudden return t
