“It says three times daily, exactly every eight hours.”

“Eight o’clock in the morning, four o’clock in the afternoon, and midnight,” I said, my voice flat and stripped of any emotion.

Ethan pulled out his yellow pad again and drew three clear check boxes next to those exact times.

“I will go to the twenty-four-hour pharmacy on Main Street right now to get it before eight,” Ethan said, looking at me as if waiting for a sign of approval.

I turned toward the automatic sliding glass doors leading out to the parking lot, completely ignoring his statement.