Sacred Trust by Hannah Alexander

Author:Hannah Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 1999-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Mercy sat on her secondhand sofa and stared out the large bay window of her living room. That window was the one thing about this rental house that she had always liked. Now if only it were out in the country somewhere, with about twenty acres surrounding it and a duck pond out front with a rowboat that Tedi could paddle around the shoreline while she daydreamed….

Lunchtime traffic returning to work clogged the main thoroughfare two blocks away. Mercy had always hated living in town, even a small town like Knolls where the people were mostly friendly and everyone knew everyone else. So many times it felt confining, as if she were living in a fishbowl, and it had become especially that way when word leaked out about Dad’s alcoholism. Then when Dad died and the messy divorce hit, all people could talk about was Mercy’s stint in the hospital. She’d had to struggle to rebuild her practice, pay off all the bills Theo had incurred during their marriage and continue payments on the car and house that Theo had retained out on the edge of town in an excellent neighborhood. For Tedi’s sake, she’d done it. Was she crazy now to consider taking Theo back to court to get custody of Tedi? Would he throw a fit? Of course he would. And how would that affect Tedi? She was five years old during the divorce trial, and it had wounded her deeply. What would happen to her this time?

Mercy glanced at her watch for the third time in ten minutes. A date. Why’d she have to open her big mouth? She and Lukas could have made this house call without sharing a meal together. And to make things worse, he was already fifteen minutes late and her stomach was growling.

Maybe she was getting the tables turned on her. Monday night she’d stood up Robert Simeon, so today was her turn. She didn’t think Lukas was the type to stand up a date, especially when a patient was involved, but what did she really know about Lukas Bower? How would she know how he treated women? This wasn’t a romantic thing anyway. How could it be? She was nearly forty, and he didn’t look old enough to have been out of med school very long. That meant there could be as much as ten years’ difference in their ages. So this would be just a friendly get-together between colleagues. Nothing else. She liked the way he handled patients, and she enjoyed talking with him. She definitely was not interested in a relationship with a man.

She frowned. The same blue Mercury Sable had slowly passed in front of her house twice now. Someone was lost, but it couldn’t be Lukas. He had an old rattle-trap Jeep. The staff joked about it in the E.R.

She glanced at the clock again. Five minutes later than last time.

Her day off was not turning out to be as relaxed and laid-back as she’d hoped. The talk with Mrs.

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