You should think very carefully about where you’ll be working on Monday morning.”

“Is that an explicit threat against my public employment, Mr.

Vance?”

“It’s a professional observation,” he said, getting up from the chair.

He left the thick envelope on the edge of the table.

“I left a second copy of that agreement in a sealed envelope at the nurses’ desk upstairs.

Read it before six o’clock.”

He walked out toward the parking garage without looking back.