The Doctor and the Midwife by Sarah Alva

Author:Sarah Alva
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Covenant Communications, Inc.
Published: 2020-07-20T19:58:08+00:00

Chapter 24

At nine thirty Monday morning, Ammon found himself outside Audrey’s door. He’d spent the last twenty-four hours worrying about her. He’d read her last message to Belay at least fifteen times, trying to figure out whether he’d be okay if she decided to end their friendship. He’d come to rely on her in a small way. When he talked to her, he felt like himself—not uptight, unsure Dr. Parker but Ammon—like he had been before med school and residency had sucked the life out of him. He felt more like the Ammon who had long hair and a beard, who climbed every weekend and lived for the next adrenaline rush.

Ammon had always wanted to be a doctor. His grandfather had been a trauma surgeon, and as a kid, Ammon would sit at his knee and listen to his stories. Ammon had known abstractly that med school and residency would be hard. What he hadn’t been prepared for was how soul crushing it would be. Bell had added light back into his life. That she was actually Audrey Novak, one of the soul-crushers in his real life, confused him beyond belief. He needed to reconcile the two people he thought he knew.

Ellie answered the door after he knocked. She gave him an impatient look in place of a hello. Audrey had probably told her about his visit yesterday.

“Is Audrey home?” he asked.

She sighed and stepped back. “Have a seat. I’ll see if she wants to talk to you.”

Ammon sat on the very edge of the couch. A laptop with a Word document up sat open on the coffee table. He glanced over the words, trying not to violate the privacy of whomever the laptop belonged to, but it was hard when it was just sitting there. It was chapter five of a novel. A character was musing about her inability to find love. Before he could finish the first paragraph, the laptop screen snapped shut. Ammon looked up to be greeted by Ellie’s glare. “Audrey’s on her way out. You’ll have to come back later.”

Ammon stood. “It’ll take just a minute.”

Audrey walked into the room before Ellie could deter him further. He stepped around the couch and followed Audrey into the kitchen.

“I’m literally out the door right now,” she said, grabbing a protein bar from the pantry. He smelled her rose shampoo as she moved past him.

“Where are you headed?” he asked. “A birth?”

“Prenatal appointments.”

“I’ll walk you to your car,” he said. “Or bike,” he added when he remembered she biked to a lot of places.

She let out a deep sigh but didn’t stop him as he followed her out of the apartment. “So where’s your office?” he asked, trying to keep pace with her quick footsteps.

“I do prenatals in my patients’ homes. I don’t have an office.”

He didn’t have anything to say to that. It made sense. She helped women birth at home, so doing their prenatal appointments at home meant she didn’t have to spend extra money to rent office space.

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