Alpha Rancher Bear: Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance (Bears of Pinerock County Book 3) by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-04-03T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Charmian didn't quite lose consciousness, but she was dazed. Full awareness returned with a sharp sensation of cold, and the sound of Alec's voice saying her name desperately. A hand patted her cheek.

"I'm up, I'm up," she mumbled, brushing at him and trying to push him away.

She opened her eyes. For a moment she could make no sense of her surroundings, and then she understood that she was hanging upside down from her seat belt. The Jeep was not quite flat on its roof, but canted at a steep angle, with her driver-side door on the uphill side. Several of the windows had been broken out and cold wind was sweeping into the car, along with snowflakes and the broken ends of branches jabbing through the matrix of shattered glass. The driver-side air bag was pressing into her face and chest, making it difficult to see anything.

"Alec," she gasped. "Are you—"

"—all right?"

They'd both asked the question at the same time, in the same tone of desperate worry.

"I ... I think so," Charmian said.

The engine had died, but the ignition was turned on, the headlights stabbing out into the falling snow. Vaguely remembering a safety lecture from somewhere back in her teenage driving history, she turned the ignition off to make sure the electrical system wasn't live, in case there was spilled gasoline from the accident that might be ignited by a spark. She reached for the headlights to turn them off, too, and then decided to leave them on. Down here in the ravine, no one was going to notice the Jeep without them.

If anyone came along to notice. They were on the Lamberts' private road.

First things first. Injury assessment was the top priority right now. Her chest ached where the seat belt was biting into her, and she guessed she was going to have bruises there. Touching her face, she felt abrasions from broken glass, and bruises on the side of her head. Her whole body felt like one big bruise. She'd really gotten knocked around as the Jeep rolled.

Beyond that, though, she didn't think there was anything seriously wrong. She tried moving her legs, rotating her ankles under the dashboard, and found that they responded normally. Her left hand felt weird; it had gotten trapped between the air bag and steering wheel. When she flexed her fingers, pain shot up her arm from the wrist. She couldn't tell if it was sprained or broken.

"Alec?" she asked. "What about you? Are you all right?"

"I ... I'll be okay."

There was an odd, breathless note in his voice. Charmian twisted around, trying to see him better. In the dim blue winter twilight, the only light inside the Jeep came from the reflected backwash of the headlights. It filled the cab with shadows and made it hard to see distinctly. The fact that they were lying mostly upside-down didn't help.

But she didn't like the way Alec was twisted in his seat. Something was wrong there.

"Don't move," she said in her no-nonsense nurse voice.

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