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gets her checked out.”
    Brock glanced at the closed door leading to the hallway that housed the exam rooms. “What happened?”
    Before Mark could answer, the front door burst open again, and a woman Mark had never seen ran into the room. A mesh baby carrier strapped to her body held a baby whose head rested against her chest. She hurried toward Brock, and he put his arm around her.
    “How is she?”
    “Doc Hunter’s with her now.” He turned to Mark. “Mark, this is my wife, Kate. She’s Betsy’s sister. Kate, this is Mark Webber.”
    A frown flitted across her face. “Mark Webber from Memphis?”
    The icy tone of her voice made his skin tingle. Was he going to get the cold shoulder every time he met a member of Betsy’s family? But he supposed he deserved whatever they thought of him. “I used to live in Memphis. I don’t anymore.” He glanced at the sleeping baby. “That’s a cute baby you’ve got there, Brock.”
    Brock’s eyes softened as he gazed down at his sleeping son, and he brushed a hand across the baby’s head. “Yeah, we’re proud of him.”
    Kate turned a pleading look to her husband. “I want to know what happened to Betsy.”
    “Mark was just about to tell us.”
    Mark cleared his throat and related how a car had almost hit Betsy at the cemetery. He left out his mounting suspicions about the incident because he wanted to question Betsy about it first.
    He had just finished telling them about the near miss when the hallway door opened, and the doctor stepped out. Betsy’s family surrounded him before he could move farther into the room. Mark stepped up behind to hear what the doctor had to say.
    “How is she?” Scott asked.
    The doctor smiled at the baby before he glanced up at Kate. “She’s fine. Just a few scrapes and bruises. She’ll be sore for a few days. It could have been a lot worse if it hadn’t been for Mr. Webber here. He saved Betsy’s life.”
    The three turned and stared at Mark. “You didn’t tell us you were the hero,” Brock said.
    Mark shrugged. “I wasn’t. Just lucky I was close enough I could get to her.”
    “That’s not the way Betsy told it.” Doc Hunter’s eyes twinkled, and he motioned for them to follow him. “She’ll want to see all of you. So come on back.”
    When they stepped into the treatment room, Betsy sat on the edge of an exam table. Her legs dangled over the side, and big bandages covered both knees. Her mouth curled down in a frown when she saw them, and she wagged a finger at Mark. “I thought you gave me a choice of bringing me here or calling my family.”
    Mark grinned. “I did. But I had a choice, too. I knew Scott and Brock would want to break my neck if I didn’t tell them what happened. And now that I’ve met Kate, I think she could be worse than either of them.”
    Kate wrapped her arm around her sister’s shoulder and smiled at him. “You’ve got that right. My sister is very special to me.”
    Scott lifted Betsy’s hands to look at the medicine covering the scrapes. “You had a close call. You need to be careful when you walk out into the street from now on.”
    Mark gave a discreet cough, and they all turned to stare at him. “I’ve been thinking about this while I’ve been waiting, and I have some questions about what happened. I don’t think this was a random incident. I think somebody deliberately tried to run Betsy down.”
    “What?” Kate’s voice almost shrieked.
    “That car came out of nowhere and headed right toward her. I didn’t think I could get to her in time, but I did.”
    Kate leaned against the exam table, and tears flooded her eyes. “Then thank you, Mr. Webber, for saving my sister’s life.”
    “It wasn’t as bad as that,” Betsy insisted. “It probably was some teenagers speeding. You know how crazy they drive on the island sometimes.”
    Mark took a deep breath. “There’s something else I didn’t tell you because I wanted Betsy to tell all of you at the same