The Pink Bonnet by Liz Tolsma

Author:Liz Tolsma [Tolsma, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Christian, Historical, Romance, Suspense
ISBN: 9781643521732
Google: B9iRDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Published: 2019-12-01T15:46:39+00:00

Cecile knelt on the hard, warm road, giving Percy’s scraped cheek a gentle rub. “Please, please, wake up.” At least he had a pulse. At least his chest still rose and fell.

Blood gushed from his temple. With her embroidered handkerchief, she worked to stem the flow of crimson. His eyes remained shut.

The insistent beep of a horn intensified and then stopped. The crowd around them parted. One of the white-clad stretcher bearers touched her shoulder. “Ma’am, we have to ask you to step aside.”

“But I can’t leave him.”

“He’s in good hands.”

He wasn’t though. This was no accident. Someone wanted to harm him and had been successful. At least partially. Who was to say they wouldn’t find him and return to finish the job?

And she was the one who had put him in this danger.

The nurses, also dressed in white, tended to Percy, but the scene blurred in front of her eyes. She couldn’t catch her breath.

She turned to one of the medics. “Can I ride along with you?”

“Are you his wife?” The man smoothed his dark mustache.

“A friend. Please, he doesn’t have anyone else here. He’s not married.”

He nodded. “Very well.” He and his counterpart lifted Percy onto the stretcher.

Percy moaned. She stroked his arm. “You’re going to be fine. And I’m going to be right here with you.”

The medics loaded Percy into the ambulance, curtains covering the three back windows. She climbed in behind him. With the horn screeching, they raced off to St. Joseph’s Hospital just down the road. The ride took a matter of a few minutes, but it might as well have been a lifetime. All the way, she never let go of her grasp on his hand. His steady pulse beneath her fingertips helped her keep her composure. Nothing else. She couldn’t lose him, couldn’t imagine her life without him. In a short amount of time, he’d become so dear to her, so important to her. But what they were doing was fraught with peril that she’d brought upon him.

At last, they reached the all-brick building. A statue of the patron saint stood guard, and crosses adorned the peaks of the multiple roof lines. She had never been here with Nathaniel. They had no money for treatment at such a place. A simple doctor and her home nursing had been all they could afford.

What if Percy died like Nathaniel had? Why were all the men in her life torn away from her? She fanned away the burning in her eyes.

The caustic odor of antiseptic assaulted her as she entered the building. The medic with the mustache pointed toward a door. “You are going to have to wait on the sun porch so the doctor can assess him. The nurse will come to see you as soon as they know something.”

Though she had to rip herself from his side, it was the best for him. She retired to the bright room, dark wicker chairs scattered around the room’s perimeter, a couple of large area rugs covering the tile floors.

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