Dakota Heat (Book 3 - Dakota Hearts) by Lisa Mondello

Author:Lisa Mondello [Mondello, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Western Romance, Romance, Romantic Suspense, contemporary romance, books by Lisa Mondello, Harlequin Romance Author, Montlake author, hotshots, fire fighters, Smokejumpers, South Dakota, Dakota Hearts
Published: 2014-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Sam was filthy, still covered in sweat, soot, and dirt from his work in the field when he walked into the main office. It had been four days since he’d last seen Summer and the first thing he wanted to do was see her smiling face light up the room for him. He’d already cleaned and put his equipment away in the cargo hold of the utility trucks. All that was left was a shower and shave, and that could wait until he caught a glimpse of Summer.

He walked into the dispatch room and found her office area empty. The other dispatcher in the room, Derek, lifted his head from his desk when he saw Sam approach.

“Looking for Summer? She went home,” Derek said.

“Was she sick?”

Derek shrugged. “I saw her at lunch and when I came back Adam told me she’d taken the rest of the day off.”

Sam thought about their last conversation. Money was tight for her staying at the motel. Maybe she’d found a rental somewhere in town and needed to move in.

Disappointed, he decided to get in that shower and clean up before heading over to the motel. If she had gotten a rental, he might be able to catch her before she left.

He thought back to the last few days, hearing her voice over the radio as they worked. Although she shared responsibilities with the other dispatchers, Summer had been on the radio a lot, keeping the team co-ordinated as they moved on the ground and through the area where’d they’d been doing prescribed burns all week.

She was a natural at her job and Sam knew she’d be an asset to the crew this season. She had remembered every single Hotshot’s name, managing to recognize them by voice even over the radio and relay what they needed exactly when they’d needed it. Every time her voice came over the radio, he could picture her face as she said the words he was hearing. He could picture her lips moving, the raising of her eyebrows, the clicking of her nails on the table—a habit that surfaced every time she attempted to curtail her anxiety—the narrowing of her eyes as she enunciated the names of the locations that they needed to move towards, and every little nuance that he’d noticed every time he saw her.

But more than that, Sam just liked listening to her smooth as silk voice. Even after a long day of work, he lay awake in the cot in the Crew Haul they used for the fire fighters while out in the field, he thought of her voice and how it soothed him.

He finished his shower quickly. Seeing Summer was the very thing that he had been waiting for the entire day. He wanted to look into her bright blue eyes as they twinkled when she smiled. He wanted to hear her soft voice as she told him about her day. He wanted to discover every little thing about her and then he wanted

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