On the Rebound 2 by Brenda Barrett

Author:Brenda Barrett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: family life, urban christian fiction, fiction urban, african american drama, african american christian suspense, christian mystery and detective
Publisher: Brenda Barrett

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It was a slower than usual morning at the clinic for Honey. It was usually so at this time of the year when school was out and most of the small population of Primrose Hill citizens were gone on vacation elsewhere.

When she got the call from Ruel she was more than ready to receive Regina. The clinic boasted a complement of three nurses, with her included, and a few doctors who were rostered for one day per week. They always had a doctor in-house from nine in the morning to four in the evening. Today it was Dr. Ying. She was the doctor in residence.

She told Honey to knock on her door when the patient arrived.

Honey had no problem with that. She felt nervy this morning, though. She was almost twitching with it. She went to her office and glanced at her cell phone periodically, picking it up and putting it down.

Conroy had told her last night after the Bible study had finished that she needed to give him an answer today re his proposal or he would not be asking again. He had been proposing on and off for the past seven years, since they had both moved back to Primrose Hill. He wanted her to find her husband and get a divorce, so that she could move on with her life. Easier said than done.

She picked up the phone and then put it down.

"Lord, I am in trouble," she mumbled to herself feverishly. "I am in deep trouble. Deep, deep trouble. I should marry Conroy, it’s long overdue, but that means I would have to come clean to both him and Oliver."

She pictured Oliver if she ever told him the truth and her heart quaked. He was the most precious person in the world to her. If she lost him, her life wouldn't be worth living. Everything up to now was done for her darling son.

These past few days, though, he was acting strange. Really strange. She stopped thinking about her dilemma and thought about him. He was mumbling when he spoke to her and acting surly and unhappy. Very unlike the Oliver of the week before and if she wasn't so caught up in her drama with Conroy Coke she would have realized sooner that her son was not the same.

He started working with Conroy today and he had left the house without even telling her goodbye. She needed to focus on him before she thought about marriages or confessions or any of that stuff.

"Nurse Allen." One of the nursing assistants popped her head through the office door. "The patient is here. Her face looks almost purple and her tongue is swollen."

Honey pulled on her efficient nurse persona and went to greet them at the clinic door. She indicated for them to come to the outpatient office and then she got Dr. Ying.

"Inflated tongue," Dr. Ying said, looking into Regina's mouth. "Food allergies, you said?"

Regina nodded. Her eyes were swollen shut and her nose was puffy and distended.

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