BlackSmoke by Robin Leigh Miller

Author:Robin Leigh Miller
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc
Published: 2010-12-06T18:05:43+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The two men stood silently for a few seconds, neither wanting to voice their opinion about this situation. Boomer noticed his hands were balled into fists and carefully relaxed them.

“Well, I guess we better get you inside. We wouldn’t want to hold you up?” Boomer pushed past Kong and walked up to a nurse standing at a desk.

“What’s wrong with him?” Kong asked.

Ricochet looked at Kong. He knew what was wrong but he wasn’t going to step into the middle of it. “Long day I guess,” he said looking down at his feet.

When Boomer came back, he looked at Ricochet and said, “It’s right through here. She said we could only stay a few minutes every half hour.”

The three men walked to a curtain that served as a door to a small cubicle. Boomer hesitated briefly, then pulled the curtain to the side. To his relief, her eyes were open.

“Hey Sam, how ya feelin?” Ricochet asked in a soft, gentle tone.

At the sound of Ricochet’s voice, Sam’s eyes darted toward the foot of her bed. The sight of the three men went a long way to speed her recovery. Her eyes immediately focused on Kong.

“Hey guys. How’s it going?” Her throat was raw and sore.

“Not bad,” Boomer replied.

His smile was big and warm, his eyes showing his relief. Ricochet was smiling as well. Sam couldn’t help but smile at him. She loved the way his bright white teeth gleamed against his dark skin. But when she looked at Kong, he averted his eyes, his face indifferent.

“They won’t tell me about the hostages. Are they all right? What about the woman?”

“Well, the two men are going to be fine. Our main target was pretty healthy, so they’ll look him over and release him. The other guy, they’d had him a while, so he needs more medical care, but they say he should recover.” Boomer stopped, not wanting to tell her about the woman.

“What about her? Is she going to make a full recovery?”

Kong spoke first. “We don’t know yet.” His answer was short and terse. It was harder than he thought it would be, seeing her so pale and weak. He wanted to go to her, hold her, tell her she’d never have to do this sort of work again.

“Glad to see you’re feeling better. Take it easy, get some rest. I’ll come back later and see ya,” Kong said, then turned and left the room. When he got on the other side of the curtain, he stopped and rubbed his eyes. His overwhelming protective feeling was all the more reason for him to go find Rebecca. He needed to prove to himself that he didn’t actually care for her. These crazy feelings were only because she was woman in a deadly situation. What man wouldn’t feel for a woman looking so pale and vulnerable? Once he had a warm sensual body next to his he’d forget all about Sam and these ridiculous emotions would fade away like the desert sunset.

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