Disclosure: The McCaffertys by Lisa Jackson

Author:Lisa Jackson [Jackson, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: C429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

You know, cowboy, there’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you... I love you, Slade. I think... I know this sounds crazy, but I do think that a part of me has always loved you. I’ll be here, when you wake up.

Jamie? Had Jamie been here? In his room? Or...where? Where the devil was he? He moaned, felt a shooting pain in his back and opened an eye.

It all came crashing back. He was in the hospital. There had been a fire. The horses...yeah, that was it, and he’d woken up earlier... Oh, God.

No! He tried to roll over, tried to lift a leg and...nothing. His mind was instantly clear. Pain screamed from the base of his skull, down his back and then just stopped. “Get me a doctor,” he roared, his voice booming through the drapes to the station where a slim woman was bending over a chart. She looked up, her short brown hair neat, a patient smile tacked to her face. “Mr. McCafferty,” she said, rounding the desk that looked as if it belonged at the helm of something out of Star Wars. “I wondered when you’d wake up.”

“I want a doctor.”

“Dr. Nimmo will be in this morning. How’re you feeling?”

“How do you think I’m feeling?” he snarled, frustrated. “My damned legs won’t move.”

“I thought the nurse from the night shift explained that you’ve been in some trauma.”

“I know that. What I don’t know is how much damage there is. Am I going to be a cripple?”

She looked at him with kind eyes. “Let’s not think that way, okay? Positive thoughts.”

“I don’t feel very positive,” he rasped, his throat burning with the effort.

“Try.” With the efficiency of years on the job, Slade watched her as she checked his temperature, blood pressure and pulse...which seemed overkill as there were half a dozen machines monitoring every bodily function known to man.

“Get my sister-in-law. Nic—Dr. Nicole McCafferty.” God, his throat ached.

“I already paged her when I noticed you were rousing.”

“Has anyone been in here? To see me?” he asked, wanting to know if Jamie had actually been at his bedside or if he’d dreamed it. The thought of her standing over him, knowing that his spine was injured...

“Dr. McCafferty’s been in three times and your brother, Thorne, and someone Dr. McCafferty introduced as a family friend. A woman.”

So it was true. Hell. She had been standing over him, knowing that he might never use his legs again, seeing him as half the man he was. His jaw tightened. He remembered making love to her in the hayloft. No wonder she’d said what she did. That she loved him. Bull. She felt obligated, as if in being with him in the stables she’d sealed her fate and now had to tie herself to a cripple. Which was ridiculous. And downright pathetic. He didn’t want her feeling any sort of debt to him and he certainly didn’t want her pity. God, he couldn’t stand that.

The doors to ICU opened and he saw Nicole, looking as if she hadn’t slept in days, sweep into the room.

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