A Kiss Before Dawn by Laurie Salzler

Author:Laurie Salzler [Salzler, Laurie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Lesbian, Fiction, General, Erotica
ISBN: 9781935627890
Google: vaCotgAACAAJ
Amazon: 1935627899
Publisher: Blue Feather Books LTD.
Published: 2012-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Mary Jo was almost home when she received an emergency call: a truck towing a horse trailer on the interstate had slid off the road and flipped over. She immediately turned around and headed to the clinic to switch trucks. Thankfully, since she’d restocked the vet box before going to Chris’s farm earlier, she got back on the road promptly.

She found traffic backed up about a mile, but a police cruiser waited to escort her. Following the officer, she drove on the shoulder to the overturned trailer. Emergency vehicles were already at the site, blue and red flashing lights reflecting off the black sky.

Mary Jo parked her rig as close as possible so she wouldn’t have to go far for supplies. She’d seen horses walk away from accidents like this with barely a scratch, and she hoped the poor animals inside the overturned trailer were as lucky. The two horses had been trapped for an hour before she arrived.

When an officer approached with a grim look on his face, she knew it wasn’t good.

“I’m Doctor Mary Jo Cavanaugh,” she said. “I got here as soon as I could.” She took a deep breath to quell her sudden nervousness. The situation seemed serious, and everyone would be looking at her for direction. She blew her breath out slowly, and her tension subsided. She could do this; she had trained for it.

“Hey, Doc, I hope you can do something for those two buggers,” the officer said, clearly worried. “There’s blood everywhere, and the owner thinks one of them broke his leg. If I can help in any way, just yell.”

Mary Jo noted the nametag on the officer’s uniform. “Okay, Jerry. I called and arranged for a horse ambulance to be dispatched from Cornell. They’ll transport them once we get them out and stabilized. Can we get a police escort to Ithaca?” As she spoke, she opened a side door on the vet box. She grabbed her stethoscope and a pen light in lieu of a flashlight, which she thought might cause the horses to panic.

“Sure. That’s a reasonable request. I’ll call my lieutenant and do it myself. By the way, the driver and his wife are over by the trailer. I’ll tell them who you are so you can get right to it.”

“Good. Okay, let’s see what we’ve got.” She trotted over to the trailer which lay on its side. Shards of safety glass lay strewn over the road, and her boots crunched with every step. Eerily, she could detect no sounds from inside the trailer.

A diesel tow truck with a bright halogen light mounted on the roof idled nearby. The rest of the world disappeared in the utter blackness at the edges of the ring of light, as though nothing else existed.

Mary Jo climbed up onto the trailer, careful not to alarm the horses with too much noise. She talked softly to them as she worked her way to the front. The windows were completely gone, probably shattered on impact.

When she looked down, she could see glass covering a dark inert form.

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