Leah's Choice by Marta Perry

Author:Marta Perry [Perry, Marta]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2009-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

She was being confronted with one thing after another that she didn’t feel capable of handling. Leah gripped the set of interview papers in her hands as her taxi driver, Ben Morgan, the elderly Englischer who enjoyed driving the Amish for a small fee, stopped in front of the clinic.

It was the last week of school, and she should be dealing with a hundred last-minute details for the picnic and program. But Johnny had recommended she do a trial interview and bring the forms in to discuss with him before she started working on the project in earnest once school was out, so here she was.

Thanking Ben, who had brought a book and announced his plan to park in the shade and wait for her, she headed for the door, her mind going faster than the car had.

She was avoiding thinking about the most serious problem facing her, she knew. Elizabeth Glick. How had she let Daniel persuade her to attempt to counsel Elizabeth? A wave of panic went through her. She wasn’t equipped to do that. What if she tried and made things worse?

Father, was I becoming too confident, too prideful in my own abilities? Have You sent me these things to show me that it is You, and You only, who is capable? Guide me, Lord, and show me the path You would have me follow. Amen.

Taking a deep breath, she opened the door to the clinic.

Two Amish families waited in the reception area, and she stopped to greet them. It gave her a breathing space before she realized that she was stalling, putting off the moment when she’d see Johnny again.

With a final smile for the children, she removed her bonnet, hanging it on a peg in the hallway, and entered the door to the research side of the building. A young man with long hair tied back at the nape of his neck glanced at her, dark eyes curious, before turning back to something he was doing with vials of blood.

He didn’t challenge her, so she walked down the hallway. Perhaps she should have asked Johnny exactly where she was to meet him. The place still felt alien to her, with its whirring noises and the equipment whose function she couldn’t even guess.

The young woman she’d met on her first visit—Stacie, her name was—walked swiftly out of the computer room and came to a dead stop when she saw Leah. “Oh. It’s you.”

“Yes.” There seemed no other answer to that question. Who else would she be? “I am supposed to meet John Kile this afternoon. Can you tell me where he is?”

“He’s not here. He asked me to go over the interview form with you and make sure you know how to do it properly.”

Her tone said that she doubted that was even possible, and her demeanor was so unwelcoming that Leah wanted to flee.

“I can come again when John is here—” she began, but Stacie cut her off with a decisive shake of her head.

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