No Appointment
She initially laughed it off. “No, surely you must be mistaken,” she told the young receptionist. “At 12, he went to see Doctor Murphy.” “Jacob Peters,” she said again. The woman double-checked, but nothing came up. It turned out that Jacob Peters had no appointment at 12. Jacob never even called to set up a meeting. Leslie’s heart dropped. Something sinister was going on, and she was terrified.
No Appointment
She Had It Wrong
She tried to persuade herself that the receptionist was mistaken. She walked down the halls and into every waiting room, but Jacob was nowhere to be found. As she stood in the middle of the place, she began to consider the worst-case scenarios. What if something were to happen to him? What if he never got past their front doors? Her heart was pounding in her chest with fury.
She Had It Wrong
