A Merger...Or Marriage?
So this was what it felt like to be a pariah. Anna Wilder tilted her chin slightly higher, tightened her grasp on her briefcase and walked firmly past the two gray-haired biddies at the information desk in the lobby of Walnut River General Hospital.
She didn't need to keep them in view to feel the heat of their glares following her to the gleaming elevator doors. She also didn't need to fully hear their whispers to catch enough to make her ulcer go into overdrive.
It's her, Anna Wilder.
The traitor.
James and Alice must be rolling in their graves.
She did her best to ignore them—and the hurt that settled like greasy black bile in her stomach. Still, to her great shame, she wasn't quite able to control the slight tremble of her hand as she pushed the elevator button to go up.
One of the two cars appeared to be permanently st ... read full excerpt from A Merger...or Marriage? ebook
