On Hummingbird Wings by Lauraine Snelling

Author:Lauraine Snelling [Snelling, Lauraine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780446585651
Publisher: FaithWords

Chapter Nineteen

Oh, no!” Gillian stomped on her brakes, strangling the steering wheel.

The impact slammed her back and then jerked her forward.

A second impact came from behind, the cars screaming like wounded animals. The sounds of crashing seemed to last forever. Mother’s car. I’ve wrecked Mother’s car. Gillian sat without moving, waiting for her heart to slow down. She moved arms, legs, neck, and shoulders. Everything worked. No blood anywhere. But then she’d been almost stopped before the impact.

Someone tapped on the window. She looked out to see a man standing there and rolled down the window. “Are you all right, ma’am?”

She nodded. “I think so. Just yanked around a bit.”

“Good. Sit tight. The police will be here any minute.”

“What about the other people?”

“I don’t know. I’m right behind you and someone else is behind me. You’re safer if you stay in your car.”

Gillian nodded. But it’s not my car. It’s my mother’s car, and she’s never in all these years put a ding in it. What am I going to do? She heard the sirens and saw flashing lights in her rearview mirror. Even if she called her mother, no one would answer. What to do? She rolled her head around, stretching neck and shoulders. All she needed at this point was whiplash.

Another police cruiser pulled up, followed by an ambulance that passed her and stopped several cars ahead of her. So was someone really injured or was this a precaution? Okay, what did she need to do? She checked behind the visor for an insurance card. None there. So she unsnapped her seat belt and leaned across the seat to flip open the glove box. Sure enough, the insurance card sat right on top of the car’s instruction manual.

She saw an officer talking to the people in the car ahead of her, then he nodded and walked back to her car, stopping to check the license plate and jotting down the number. Gillian rolled the window down again. Good it was electric because now her hands were shaking so severely she couldn’t have grasped a turning handle.

“Are you all right, ma’am?” The concern in his voice brought immediate tears.

“I was until just a minute ago, when I started to shake.”

“Good, that is perfectly normal. No blood or pain anywhere?”

“No, sir.” Funny saying sir to a man far younger than she.

“Can I see your license, registration, and insurance card?”

She handed them to him. “How many cars are involved?”

“Five. Good thing everyone was going so slowly.” He looked up from the cards. “This vehicle belongs to Dorothy Ormsby?”

“Yes, she’s my mother and she’s never gotten a dent in it. Prides herself on her driving, and here I have it one time and look what happened.”

“Sorry.” He walked back to the front of her car and then to the rear, then back to the window. “I think you’ll still be able to drive your car. The bumpers did their jobs and this is a heavy vehicle. We’ll let you know when you can try.

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