Between Here and the Horizon by Callie Hart

Author:Callie Hart [Hart, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01LWDDIR7
Goodreads: 31949230
Published: 2016-10-17T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

The Good Samaritan

“It’s nowhere near as bad as they thought, apparently. Just a simple case of hypothermia. They’re bringing him back to the medical center later on tonight.”

“God, it’s crazy that there isn’t a proper hospital on the island. Crazy.” It had been even crazier watching Sully being choppered off the island with the three surviving crew of the Sea King. In total, Sully had actually dragged eleven men from the water, but eight of them had either been dead already or died on the beach.

Rose was making chicken soup, and I was teaching the children arithmetic and English at the dining room table. Amie was completely oblivious to the events of last night. Connor had slept through Sully’s arrival and hadn’t woken up until the chopper arrived, so he’d only caught a part of the rescue. He hadn’t seen Sully at all, thank god. A guy tearing up and down the beach, the spitting image of Ronan? That would have raised more than a few questions, and I wasn’t sure I was ready to handle the monumental task of explaining Ronan’s twin brother just yet. Connor kept asking if he could go and look at the wreckage of the Sea King that was still washing up in pieces on the beach. I was too scared to let him. Six men were still missing, presumed dead, and the last thing I needed was to take him down there, only to have a bloated, mangled corpse roll up onto the sand.

“I’m still kicking myself that I didn’t come down to the dock,” Rose was saying. “I saw all the lights and the cars zipping down the road, but it was just so cold. I couldn’t face it. Everyone’s still talking about it. Most excitement we’ve had around here in a very long time.” Rose paused, shooting me a sidelong glance that I felt burning into me rather than saw. “I also may have heard that you were quite upset about you know who,” she said slyly. We were being careful not to mention Sully’s name in front of the children. “Any truth in that?”

“Yeah, sure, I was definitely upset. He’d just risked his life out there in that tiny boat. He’d been in and out of the water so many times. I think everyone was worried about him.”

“Hmm. That’s not how Michael Gilford said he saw it. He said you were hysterical. Started screaming at the EMTs to do their jobs. Running up and down the beach like a woman possessed. He said you looked like you were on the verge of picking up our belligerent friend and carrying him off home yourself.”

“Psshh. Ridiculous.”

Rose laughed softly under her breath, pinching salt out of her hand and dumping it into the bubbling vat in front of her on the stove. “Poor Michael. Every time a woman steps foot on the island, he takes a shine to her. And then she ends up falling in love with you know who, and that’s that.

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