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Counterattack: Part 5

“Before you know it,” turned out to be a bit of an exaggeration.

He arrived on Saturday afternoon, complete with chaperon, meeting me in front of the parking garage behind the hospital.

The area around the hospital was one of those spots in Grand Lake that felt like a big city. The highway that ran through downtown wasn’t far off, and we could hear it. The hospital, a big, block-shaped, brick building, sprawled across the street. The new medical research institute, a long metal and glass building that could have been stolen from the cover of a science fiction novel, stretched as long as the combined hospital and garage.
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