Beau by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773362069
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-02-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

He was correct—she certainly knew when they had arrived. Not only did the truck slow down from a fast rate of speed to an almost complete stop but they were all shifted and cried out as they tumbled slightly. But it wasn’t long before the big double rear doors opened up, and there was Asher, grinning at them. “We’ve got doctors. We’ve got coffee. We’ve got washroom breaks,” he said, “and we have quite a few military men here to help us out.”

But none of the women moved. Beau hopped down, and Danica reached out and asked, “Give me a hand, will you?” Instead, he picked her up by the waist and set her down gently, her feet still wrapped up in rags topped off by towels.

He looked at her bloody bindings and said, “You need to get those looked at.”

She shrugged. “I can get them looked at all I want,” she said. “I still need to get off them on a more permanent basis.”

The belligerent woman stood, stopping the other women from coming off the truck. She looked at Danica’s feet. “What happened to you?”

“What happened,” Danica said in exasperation, as if fed up with the woman’s attitude, “is that I’ve been running the skin off the bottom of them trying to save about thirty women from being trafficked, including you.” And, with that smart remark, she turned and limped to the gas station. She was stopped by a group of men who wanted to know her name and address.

Beau called to one man and said, “She’s the one we found first.”

Immediately she was motioned toward one of the medical vehicles, where she sat down, and one of the doctors unbound her feet. He took one look and whispered, “I already know what hamburger meat looks like.”

Danica added, “I imagine this looks like a hamburger that’s been ground into a garden, then picked back up again to see if it was edible or not.”

The doctor couldn’t have been more than forty-five, a young forty-five at that. He flashed her a bright grin, making the freckles on his face crinkle up. “That’s a pretty good analogy,” he said. “These will have to be cleaned and soaked, and you can’t walk on them for a bit.”

“Then you should have let me go to the bathroom first,” she said, “because I still have to do that.”

“Got it,” he said. “But some things have to happen in the right order.”

“Well, I’ve still got to go to the bathroom,” she said. “Otherwise I’ll pee right here.”

He looked at her, studied her feet again, and winced.

“Never mind,” Beau said. “I’ve got her.” He bent to pick her up and glared at her. While the doctor had been kind and compassionate, Beau was ready to snap at her for damaging her feet so badly.

She glared back at him. “Don’t bother telling me off,” she said. “You know there wasn’t anything else I could do. If I hadn’t escaped, then you know all kinds of shit would have gone down a whole different way.

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