Women's Contemporary Fiction, Box Set by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

It had been a long shift. It felt twice as long tonight, what with the primary night traffic on the street and his anticipating what was waiting for him right after he got off. Well, it would all be over by tomorrow, Reid Kincannon thought. He leaned over in the front seat and was about to flip on his off-duty sign when he saw the pregnant woman standing in front of the Senate building. She was waving frantically at him.

“Oh, no.”

His better instincts warred with the fact that he had a class to get to and a final to take. If he stopped to pick up this fare, there was no doubt in his mind that he would be late for his exam. Unless, of course, she was heading for the university.

Seeing her condition, he rather doubted that.

To stop or not to stop, that is the question. And he knew his answer.

“Damn it, Ma,” he muttered under his breath, “why’d you raise me to have a conscience?” If he didn’t stop, the woman would haunt him all night. With a sigh, he left his sign on and pulled up to the curb next to the woman.

Shanna could have cried with relief. She yanked open the door and awkwardly tumbled into the backseat. She had begun to feel wobbly and it felt wonderful to be off her feet again. “Thank God.”

He turned to look at her. Well, he had made the right choice for one of them, he thought sarcastically. “Always glad to ride to the rescue. Where to?”

Shanna gripped her purse so hard, her knuckles felt as if they were going to break through her skin. Another contraction had just slammed into her. “The hospital.”

He glanced at her abdomen. The lady was ripe. “Which one?”

“Any one.” Shanna was panting. This was absolutely awful. She felt as if a pair of huge unseen hands were trying to rip her apart. She realized that the taxi wasn’t moving and that the driver was still looking at her, waiting for a real destination. “No, I mean Georgetown University Hospital.”

It was all he wanted to hear. “You got it.”

Reid turned the car sharply to the right. Tires screeched in protest as he took the corner. Before him, the traffic light had gone yellow. He stepped on the gas, but the signal turned red a full two seconds before he managed to get to the corner. As he waited impatiently for it to turn green again, he turned around to get a better look at his fare. There was something vaguely familiar about her and it nagged at him. It was rare that he forgot a face. “Do I know you?”

She squeezed her eyes shut as the end of the contraction finally came. She couldn’t go on like this. “I don’t think so.” She slowly took in a lungful of air. “I don’t know any taxi drivers.”

“A snob, eh?” It was a teasing remark meant to lighten the tension that was beginning to fill the interior of the cab.

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