“I spent the weekend going over the billing codes for next quarter.”

“Good,” she said.

“The promotion paperwork is on my desk.

We’ll go over the salary breakdown at four o’clock today.”

By eleven fifteen, the morning patient charts were cleared and filed in the practice database.

Seth was sitting in the corner chair of the waiting room when I came out of consultation room two.

He stood up right away, holding a plain white envelope sealed with a gold foil sticker.

“I wrote this in my truck while you were working,” Seth said, handing it to me.