Too Close to Home by Lynette Eason

Author:Lynette Eason
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: FIC042000, FIC042060, FIC042040
ISBN: 9781441207456
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2010-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

17

Forty minutes west of Spartanburg, Physicians Associates sat up on a gently sloping hill, green sod grass neatly trimmed and hedged. Samantha walked up the sidewalk toward the front door. “Doesn’t look like a crime scene, does it?”

“Nope. Unfortunately, appearances can be deceiving.”

“Yeah. Let’s hope we’re here in time. It’s getting close to six.”

Connor held the door open for her, and she breathed a sigh of relief as the air-conditioning cooled the sweat beaded on her nose. It was hot today and she was ready for fall. Real fall. Not ninety-degree fall.

Approaching the desk, she watched Connor flash his badge and ask to speak to Dr. Josiah Pressley. “It’ll just take a few minutes. Is there somewhere we can talk privately?”

The curious secretary nodded. “Sure, this way, please.”

Samantha took note of the layout of the office. Each doctor had his or her own waiting area. Interesting. She passed a young mother reading to her child, a man with a bandage around his hand—and a teenage girl who looked to be about seventeen years old. She nudged Connor. “Look.”

He spotted her. “Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?”

“Big-time.”

“You look like you’re about her age. You want to see if you can get her name and figure out if she’s a model wannabe while I talk to the doc?”

“Good idea.” Samantha grinned at the thought that she could pass for seventeen or eighteen. Yeah, right.

She sat in the chair opposite the teen and picked up a magazine. She flipped through several pages, set it down, and picked up another. With a sigh, she dropped it on the stack, looked at the girl, and said, “You’d think they could at least provide some interesting reading material, like Seventeen magazine or People.”

“I know. I’ve been sitting here for about thirty minutes. I’m going to start charging them for my time.”

“Now that’s a concept. Wonder what would happen if we sent them a bill. Think they’d realize we were poking fun at them or do you think they’d pay it?”

A thoughtful look crossed her pretty face. “I don’t know. Want to try?”

“Margaret Addison?” A nurse stood in the hallway, holding a chart.

The teen rose. “That’s me.” She flashed a bright white smile. “It was nice talking to you.”

Thinking fast, Samantha said, “You should be a model. You have a gorgeous smile.”

Surprised, Margaret lifted a brow. “Well, thank you, but I’m not interested in modeling. I’m going into pediatrics.”

“Oh, well, good luck.” Sam didn’t know whether to feel relieved or frustrated at the dead end. She watched Margaret walk down the hall and enter the room, then took off after Connor, wondering where he’d ended up.

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