Carol by Cindy Caldwell

Author:Cindy Caldwell [Caldwell, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Carol's jumbled nerves had kept her up all night, wondering what it would be like when she went to visit the doctor. The open house had been a great success, and the poles that Will had given her had allowed her to move a little bit this way and that. The chair that the doctor had loaned her had small wheels that she couldn't really reach with her hands, and a wheel in the center in the middle connected to a metal bar that people pulled her around with.

She thought she'd seen pictures of a different kind of chair with wheels, but this was the only one she'd seen in Tombstone. She’d seen several people with crutches, and she never told anyone but after she'd healed from the accident and wasn't in pain any longer, she tried to stand a few times but her legs wouldn't hold her. So crutches weren’t an answer for her, so she was glad for the help of the chair.

As they pulled up in front of the doctor's office, Saffron waited with Carol in the wagon while Adam took the chair with wheels down from the back. Carol held the poles Will had given her in her hand tightly, anxious to show the doctor what she was able to do. Saffron squeezed her hand tightly, and she knew she was trembling. She wondered how things had changed so much. After the accident, while they were all grieving their parents, she hadn’t thought a great deal about walking.

It had only been since she’d been in Tombstone that she'd even wondered about it. She’d been happy at home with her brothers, but now that Saffron lived with them, and after her experience with Charlie, the bird that was stuck in the fireplace that she couldn't help, things seemed a little bit different. Sitting in the back of the buggy with her brothers on Sunday at the mercantile didn't seem to be enough anymore. And when Saffron had taken her to the circus, things had changed forever for her.

Saffron squeezed Carol's hand one more time before she hopped out of the wagon and into Adam's arms. Carol glanced sideways at them, expecting to see "the newlyweds stare" as she’d begun to call it, but she noted only concern on both of their faces. It occurred to her that they might be as nervous as she was.

Adam situated the chair on the boardwalk and came back to the wagon, swooping Carol into his arms and crossing the dirt between the wagon and the boardwalk in two quick strides. He set her down gently and backed up. He pushed his hat back up on his forehead and crossed his arms over his chest, his eyes trained on Carol. "Do you want me to come in with you?"

Carol’s stomach fluttered as she thought of the question that she had been debating over whether to ask the doctor, the one that kept her up most of the night. It was a

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