Blaze (The Firefighters of Darling Bay Book 1) by Rachael Herron

Author:Rachael Herron
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: HGA Publishing
Published: 2013-09-29T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

In the hospital, an hour later, Samantha woke up. As soon her sister’s eyes opened, Grace burst into tears, and so did Samantha. Sam dashed her hands at her face. “I don’t know why I’m crying. Where am I?”

Grace tried to answer, to choke back her tears, and was astonished to find that she couldn’t say anything. Her voice got stuck in her throat and she coughed.

Samantha pulled at the bedclothes and looked, wild-eyed, to Tox. “Does she need the inhaler? Can you give it to her again?”

Grace shook her head.

Tox stepped forward, putting his hand on the rail of Samantha’s hospital bed. “She’s fine. I think Grace is upset about you, that’s all. You were in a car accident.”

“The car—” gasped Grace “—it fell. Into the ocean. The car you were in fell into the ocean.”

Samantha’s eyes widened. “How’s Justin?”

“Who cares about Justin?” Grace felt anger settle into her bones. Her sister was doing it again. Falling for some loser who would end up hurting her, or worse. “You almost died. You came so close to death. How can I—” she broke off and turned her face away, looking at the ugly green privacy curtain. Her sister was injured. They could hash this out later. It wasn’t important now.

In a calm voice, Tox said, “Justin’s going to be okay. He’s in surgery right now for internal bleeding but the doctor told me before they went in that it looked like a clean fix.”

Samantha glanced down at her body in the bed. “I hurt. But I don’t know where…”

“You got pretty smashed up.” Tox gestured at her face. “You’re going to be black and blue for a couple of weeks.”

Grace said, “You were out for a while. But the doctor couldn’t find evidence of bleeding or broken bones. You’re staying overnight to make sure they’re right and to make sure you don’t have a concussion. The nurse keeps trying to kick us out for the night, but I wasn’t going anywhere till you woke up.” Tox had refused to leave, too.

“I don’t get it—why were you there?”

Grace took a deep breath and tried to keep it level. Neutral. She didn’t want her terror—or her anger—to come through. “We were having burgers at the pier.”

Sam’s eyes brightened slightly. “Oh! Your date!”

Oh, sometimes she looked so like Mom that it hurt Grace’s heart. Especially when she was bruising like this, Grace realized. At the end of their mother’s life, her face had almost always looked just the same, puffy and mottled.

Sam glanced at Tox, her grin wide. “Tell me everything later. I can’t wait to hear how it went.”

Grace felt the blush spread across her face.

Tox fiddled with the bed rail. “Let’s just put it this way. It was the most exciting date I’ve ever been on. And technically, I think we’re still on it.”

“Oh!” said Samantha in delight.

“Sam! He means it was exciting because we almost watched you die.”

“Oh.” Sam’s eyes were downcast again. “Was anyone else hurt?”

“No one critically. Some bumps and bruises.

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