Chapter Thirteen
Ella
“Ella?” a voice called.
Glancing up, a doctor I’d never met was standing by the door to the reception area at the doctor’s office. When I met her eyes, she smiled, a hint of a question in her gaze.
I stood from my chair, setting aside the magazine I’d been flipping through. “That’s me,” I said, giving a little wave as I approached her.
After I’d left the hospital from my roll in the ditch, the hospital had automatically scheduled an appointment here for me. This was the one and only general medical clinic in Willow Brook. I hadn’t been here in years. Willow Brook Family Medicine had expanded from one doctor to two, or so it appeared. I’d been expecting to see Dr. Johnson, although by my calculations he had to be approaching seventy at this point.
When I reached
