Chasing Kate (An American Dream Love Story Book 1) by Josephine Parker

Author:Josephine Parker [Parker, Josephine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 16: Chase

Chase reached out with his one good arm and placed his hand on the bedside table. That stopped the room from spinning. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened them again, the light above the bed floated in a gauzy haze and the angles in the room sank and dipped like he was sailing in a stormy sea.

Tubes ran from his arm and body, trailing across the bed covers. He was tethered to machines. The only thing he could relieve himself of was an oxygen monitor pinching the end of one finger. He pulled it off and tossed it to the end of the bed, then turned to try to find a clock. As he did, a stabbing pain shot through his shoulder and up the side of his neck. He groaned inwardly, but refused to hit the blue button to ask for more drugs. He had to keep his head clear.

He shouldn’t be in the hospital. The race was just a Test and Tune. They were just there to dial-in the car, see what it could do. It was a clear morning. The track was clean. He should have known when the other driver pulled his car past the staging beam, then right back to the wet-box, he would lose traction. As soon as the light dropped, both cars shot forward, and the other car crossed the center line and straight into him. He didn’t even feel the pain until the pit crews pulled him out of the smoking car and onto a gurney. It was a blur after that.

Chase reached for a cup of water and leaned forward to sip it through a straw, but even that shot pain through his torso. “Dammit,” he moaned to himself. He took another sip. He had to flush these drugs out. He wondered how long it would be until he could pull himself out of this bed and slip into a taxi to the airport. When everyone found out—and they would—he wanted to be upright and able to defend himself.

First, he had to find Kate. If he could just explain to Kate, they could figure everything else out together. Where had Bo put his phone? He had been so stupid. He thought if he gave himself totally to his company in every other way he could keep this sliver of his life to himself. It wasn’t even real racing, after all. Just drag racing. He never thought he would get hurt.

Chase started to feel the drugs evaporate from his limbs just a bit. As he did, pieces of the day began to refill in his mind. Inside the ambulance, as his clothes were being cut from his body, the EMT asked, “whose Kate? Whose Kate, buddy? We’ll find her. Quiet now, you just lean back.”

Chase gripped the rail on the side of his bed. He had to make his way back to Kate. He would change. He would tell her everything. Then he heard her voice.

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