Chosen Path (A Bodhi King Novel Book 7) by Melissa F. Miller

Author:Melissa F. Miller [Miller, Melissa F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940759784
Publisher: Brown Street Books
Published: 2022-04-25T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Molly left a message for Officer Booth, who was off duty until the morning. She left a second message for the doctor in Maine, then she turned out the lights in the library and returned to the kitchen. She’d done all she could do for Derek Wolf tonight, and she was determined to enjoy a dinner with interesting company.

Having both Bodhi and Hope in the old Victorian all day had made her realize how solitary her existence had become in Scandia Bluff. She saw her patients, of course. At least when they didn’t cancel on her. But she hadn’t found a way to weave herself into the village’s social life. She rarely shopped at the little stores in the square or ate in the handful of restaurants. She’d attended one event at the library—a foreign film festival where she’d first met Hope and Nancy Grant, the librarian. And that was pretty much the extent of her involvement in village life. Mainly, she worked, she slept, and then she worked again. Uncle Al would be disappointed in her. Well, no more.

“Let’s eat in the dining room,” she suggested brightly when she returned to the kitchen.

“That sounds like fun,” Hope agreed.

They set the table and lit some candles while Bodhi finished stir-frying the vegetables and grated some fragrant fresh ginger root over the rice. He carried the serving bowls into the dining room and placed them on the vintage sidebar that had come with the house. Actually, all of Doctor Larson’s furniture had remained in the house. With no living family, Rolf Larson’s estate was earmarked for the county animal rescue center, which happily accepted a check from Molly for Doc’s furniture.

So the house was almost identical to how it had been when Doc had lived there. She had bought a new mattress because sleeping on a dead man’s ancient, musty mattress was not in her life plan and had boxed up the doctor’s framed photographs, books, personal letters, and other ephemera. Six months later, the boxes were still piled up in the smallest of the spare bedrooms. She didn’t know what on earth to do with them, but she didn’t have the heart to throw away the mementos of the village’s beloved long-time doctor. She felt as if she were the steward of his legacy but she didn’t have the faintest idea how to preserve it.

Bodhi made another trip to the kitchen for his glass of water and returned with the bottle of wine. As Molly refilled her glass, inspiration struck.

“Hope, I inherited, for lack of a better word, all of Doctor Larson’s personal papers, photographs, and books, among other things. Would the library be interested in any of it? I mean, he was a fixture in the village and an important part of its history.”

Hope’s eyes sparkled with excitement, but after a moment, she sighed. “Maybe, but I doubt it. Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s a fantastic idea, but Mrs. Grant isn’t big on history.”

“Really?” Bodhi was surprised.

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