Beyond Desire
Jacob Graham patted her arm affectionately, his smile sympathetic. "I'm afraid so. There's no chance of error. Have a seat in the waiting room while I write a couple of prescriptions for you." She dressed, walked back to the gray carpeted little room and sat in one of the red leather chairs. Not a chance, he'd said. She'd gone to Elizabeth City—forty miles north of her Caution Point, North Carolina, hometown—for the examination, because the old doctor had been her family's physician for more than forty years; she trusted Jacob Graham. Her gaze captured the man who sat across from her beneath a painting of the perfect family gamboling in pristine snow. She wanted to turn her back to it. Engrossed in the Carolina Times, the man seemed oblivious to her presence. Would he also get bad news?
Dr. Graham appeared, saw the man and greeted him with a smile. "I see you've finished it ahead of time. My grandson is going to be one happy boy." He opened the violin case, examined the instrument and exclaimed, his weathered white face wreathed in smiles, "It's beautiful, just like new."
"It's as good as new, too," the stranger said. "Ought to last Jason until he' ... read full excerpt from: Beyond Desire ebook
