Alaska Mountain Rescue by Elizabeth Heiter

Author:Elizabeth Heiter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-10-08T20:30:24+00:00

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“IT’S BETTER TO ask forgiveness than permission, right, boy?” Peter asked Chance as he sped them along the icy back streets of Desparre.

Chance’s head swiveled in the passenger seat and the look in his eyes suggested he had doubts.

Since Alanna had his truck, Peter had taken his police vehicle. He wasn’t sure how long he had before the chief noticed his absence and grew suspicious. Before she called him up and demanded he return to the station. Before he faced serious trouble for ignoring her orders.

Of course, she could track the police vehicle, too, have his fellow officers chase him down. But Peter hadn’t had time to find something else. At this point, he was looking at insubordination at best, aiding and abetting a fugitive at worst. What was one borrowed police vehicle in comparison?

Even if he could get away without any charges being brought against him, he was probably finished in Desparre. He’d gotten the job because the department was desperate. Dozens of other applications around the state—even the country—had shown him how fast most police stations would eliminate him without an interview because of his hearing loss.

Unless there was drastic change, his career as a police officer was over. The idea made him nauseous.

Police academy had been brutal. He’d thought he was in good shape before he started, but he’d discovered that traipsing alongside soldiers in war zones hadn’t prepared him for the full physicality of chasing suspects for long stretches. It hadn’t prepared him for actually carrying his own weapon and learning not to flinch at the sound of it firing, which was just a little too similar to the boom of the explosion that had changed his life. It hadn’t prepared him for all the small adaptations he had to make just to be sure his bad ear didn’t put him or his fellow officers at increased risk.

He’d stuck it out, through the bruises and the flashbacks. He’d even worked through the bullying from an instructor who didn’t approve of Desparre PD bending their applicant rules to get another recruit willing to live in their remote town. The guy thought Desparre PD was unnecessarily endangering him—and that Peter could endanger his future colleagues by not being up to the job.

He’d worked hard to be a good officer, to make sure his disability didn’t impact his effectiveness. The day he’d graduated from the academy and gotten the official go-ahead to become a Desparre PD rookie, he’d felt a sense of accomplishment and joy headier than his first assignment as a war reporter.

Today he was throwing it all away.

Still, he didn’t turn around. No way could he just follow orders when those orders were putting Alanna at risk. No, the only shot he had at saving the career he’d grown to love so much was to bring in Darcy and save those kids.

At least he had an idea where to start. Sure, it was an idea based half on coordinates Alanna had decoded from her memory of the symbols she’d seen, half on guesswork.

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