Chapter 14

“You handled yourself pretty good tonight, doc,” Max said with a tone of approval.  When I said nothing as I focused on examining his eyes’ reaction to the light I was shining in them, he added, “Knocking out and handcuffing a corpse, now, that’s impressive.” I put the light back in my pocket and put the stethoscope in my ears so that I could listen to his heartbeat.  After finding none in Jacob, it was reassuring to hear the steadiness of his, even if it was accelerated. “Most people would be completely freaked out about a walking corpse.”

“I didn’t know it was a dead man.  I just knew it was a man,” I said as I pulled the stethoscope from my ears. “I can’t say what I would have done, had I known it was an animated corpse in the house.”

Max grinned.  “Animated corpse. I like that.”

“You seem a bit cavalier for having just been bludgeoned by