Chapter One
OCTOBER 8, 1999
11:15 PM
So let me get this
straight," Joanna Meissner said to Carlton Williams. The two friends
were sitting in the dark inside Carlton's Jeep Cherokee in a no-parking
zone on Craigie Street along side the Craigie Arms apartment
building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "You've decided that it
would be best for us to wait to be married until after you finish your
surgical residency some three or four years from now."
"I haven't decided anything," Carlton said defensively. "We're
having a discussion here."
Joanna and Carlton had been out to dinner in Harvard Square
that Friday evening and had been enjoying themselves until Joanna
had brought up the sore subject of their long-term plans. As usual,
from that moment on, the tone of the conversation had deteriorated.
They had been over ... read full excerpt from Shock ebook
