(Kieran)
I waited until Sloane was inside before I pulled out of her driveway.
It had been a long day. The kind that started before most people were awake and did not let up until the evening. Two surgeries. A consultation that ran over. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, the parking lot this morning.
I drove with the radio off.
I had seen Ashley the moment she got out of her car. She was standing in the middle of the lot watching Sloane and me. That look on her face was not something I was going to forget quickly. It was not anger exactly. It was something closer to obsession. The kind that had stopped making room for reason a long time ago.
When I looked at her I made sure she understood one thing. That I had seen her. That I knew exactly what she was doing standing there. Th
