Practice Run (Mount Faith Series: Book 5) by Barrett Brenda

Author:Barrett, Brenda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: african american romance, african american mystery, new adult romance, african american christian, african american suspense
Publisher: Brenda Barrett

Chapter Nine

“Marcus Bancroft, Jamaican Athlete Mowed Down By Car and In A Coma”: Those were the news headlines for most of the day. The local and international media were in a frenzy. In the middle of the day, one outlet reported him dead and then there was a firestorm of phone calls to the university to confirm. The hospital had to beef up security because there were several persons who were hanging about the place who wanted to know what was going on.

Tiffany arrived at midday. She could not believe that Marcus was in Jamaica and visiting Mount Faith. She was shell-shocked when she heard the news. She had been in bed with Neil at the time, reveling in their final day together.

Had Marcus come home and seen her with Neil and didn't bother to say anything? The thought made her woozy. When she arrived, they denied her access to the hospital waiting room.

"Only family is allowed in there." The fierce looking nurse told her rudely.

"But I am his girlfriend, I live with him." Tiffany demanded. "Where is Dr. Bancroft? I need to get a hold of him."

The nurse had looked at her incredulously, taking in her piercings and the tattoo of a bird she had on her neck, and had turned up her nose. She looked at the other nurses, who were trying not to stare, and then left to find Dr. Bancroft, who had been in the waiting room.

He had taken one look at her, given a grimace and nodded for the nurse to let her through. That's how Tiffany had been allowed in the precious inner circle.

She vented in her heart once more that she did not have the precious Bancroft surname. She also vowed to maybe dress a little more conservatively among the country bumpkins who obviously found her short blonde hair, her tattoos, and her piercings too over the top, as if they did not watch television or venture into the city.

Marcus' family treated her as if she was invisible. They gave her a wide berth when they came and went from the waiting room and whispered among themselves, excluding her from their conversations. She wondered, uncomfortably, if it was because she had in a nose ring, and an eyebrow ring.

Tiffany's anxiety levels rose exponentially with each ticking of the clock. How would she survive without Marcus? Would she have to move out of the apartment and move in back with her parents?

Suppose something was seriously wrong with his legs and he couldn't walk again; would she even want to live with a cripple? There would be no more traveling and fame. Marcus would be known as one of those athletes who had a bright future before him, but wasn't able to realize his full potential.

She kept fidgeting. On top of the stress of current situation, the guilt of being with Neil for the eight weeks that Marcus was away was strangling her.

"At least Deidra is all right," She heard Marcus' mother say to a distinguished looking man who looked like somebody she saw on television all the time.

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