A Ring to Secure His Crown by Kim Lawrence

Author:Kim Lawrence [Lawrence, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-06-15T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

LATER THE SEQUENCE remained blurred in her mind. She remembered seeing Sebastian, then the blood that covered half his face, and she watched him fall, and then in her head it happened again and again until finally she got his name out.

‘Sebastian!’ Her cry sounded that way in her head but came out as a croak as she began to stumble past the debris that littered the area, her progress frustratingly slow across to where he lay—where he lay very still.

Heart drumming, dread like an icy hand around her heart, she knelt down to where he was lying face down, his head turned away from her. One arm was curved above his head, the other trapped under him.

He groaned and she felt a rush of relief that made her sob. ‘You’re alive. Oh, God, don’t die, don’t die...please, Sebastian! Help, someone, please, he’s...’

A wave of horror rolled over her; the extent of the destruction was too much for her to take in...too much... It was like the set of a disaster movie’s big scene only it wasn’t a movie—it was real.

On her knees she moved towards where her sister lay a few feet away, her eyes closed. Nobody had heard her cry for help, they were busy crying, wailing, bleeding or dying, but she tried again.

‘Help!’

Her throat was raw by the time someone heeded her cry.

A man with a torn shirt, his face smoke-blackened, appeared.

He dropped down beside Sabrina and felt her pulse. She shook away his hand—couldn’t he see she was fine?

‘You’re going to be OK.’

‘My sister... Sebastian...’ She touched her sister’s hair and nodded to where Sebastian lay close by.

She watched, her fingers on Chloe’s comfortingly strong pulse, as the Good Samaritan began to turn Sebastian over. He was halfway through the procedure before she realised what even someone with a scrap of first aid knew—and she was a doctor.

She was a doctor!

She left Chloe and grabbed the man’s arm. ‘No, don’t! He might have a spinal injury. He needs to be—’

The man stopped, not in response to Sabrina’s urgent plea but at the terrible groan that issued from Sebastian.

The sound cut through Sabrina like glass. ‘You’re hurting him!’ she wailed.

His hand fell away. ‘Sorry. I was only trying to help.’

They both turned as Sebastian completed the manoeuvre himself before sliding back into unconsciousness.

The man beside her swore as he stared at Sebastian’s face. ‘That’s a mess.’

Sabrina clenched her fists and hissed a fiercely protective denial. ‘He’s fine...oh, your poor face.’ She lifted a shaking hand and, on her knees in the dirt, touched the side of his face that wasn’t shredded and bleeding and stroked the dark hair back from his brow.

The man moved away.

‘Hey, he’s the guy who got the girl from the cliff.’

Two men walking past supporting a staggering woman between them stopped and looked down at Sabrina and Sebastian.

‘Hold on, they’ll be with you soon...’

‘I’m fine, but they—’ She stopped, her voice cracking with fear.

The man nearest nodded and raised his

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