Chapter 38

The hospital kept me for another twenty-four hours and then released me. It took me about another week to feel like myself again though. During that time, I healed my mind, body, and soul and loved on Studmuffin extra hard. He allowed it, which was a bonus.

Boxy said that business at Sunray's was picking up again. I desperately wanted to be back in the shop, but both Boxy and my familiar kept me away. They knew best, especially since deep down, I still felt rattled about everything that happened, and could have happened, at the lake. I was still here, though, still standing. For that, I was grateful.

It was early on a Monday morning when a familiar-sounding possessed car screeched into the parking lot. Boxy hadn't yet arrived, so that left Studmuffin and me to deal with He Who Only Comes Out at Night. Actually that left me to deal with him since my familiar was already nodding off at the sound of Travis's cowboy boots.