4 Chapter 4

Bond locked it after him, then tossed the empty beer cans into the recycle trash and discarded the messy pizza box and napkins. He headed upstairs, grateful he wasn’t working the next two days. Monday, as the new chief of surgery, he had a lot of paperwork to clear before his patient visits and surgeries scheduled the rest of the week. 2

Grateful the next morning was Saturday, Bond slept in and, after dressing in casual clothes, drove to the next village for breakfast at the New Pines Café. Although the trip was only fifteen miles from Black Bear and via freeway would’ve taken about twelve to reach, it took far longer on the hairpin turns of the mountain roads. His stomach growled with hunger by the time he arrived.