Feels Like Home by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Shayne, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2005-11-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

It was nearly three in the morning when Jimmy returned home. Kara surged to her feet when she heard the car in the driveway, saw the headlights painting the house walls before they went dark.

“Easy,” Caleb said. He’d come inside to sit watch with her after Jimmy had left, and when Wade showed up to relieve him, he’d decided not to go home. Wade had been brewing coffee nonstop—in fact, he was putting on a fresh pot when the car pulled in, but he heard the vehicle, too, and quickly joined them at the front door. “It’s Jim,” Caleb said.

“God, I hope…” Kara bit her lip. She didn’t need to finish the thought. All three of them were dreading the news Jim might bring, the devastation he might have encountered when he’d gone out there tonight.

Kara unlocked the door and pulled it open as he mounted the front steps, shoulders slumped, head low. He looked exhausted.

“Jimmy?”

He lifted his head, met her eyes, then glanced past her at the two men who stood behind her in the doorway. He had to see the questions in their eyes.

“He’s alive,” he said.

“Oh, thank God.” Kara put her arms around him. It wasn’t planned—it was instinctive. She hugged his neck and he hugged her waist, right there in the open doorway.

She felt the looks Wade and Caleb exchanged behind her, and a rush of self-consciousness slid through her. She released her hold on Jimmy, but he didn’t reciprocate. Instead he shifted to the side, keeping one arm around her waist, holding her close beside him as he walked into the house.

“You look wrung-out,” Wade said. “You want coffee?”

“Thanks, Wade. That would be great.”

Nodding, Wade went to the kitchen. Jim walked through the living room to the open bedroom door and peeked inside at Tyler, who slept soundly. He sighed, then turned to move back to the sofa, still holding Kara beside him as he sank onto its cushions. Caleb took a seat in the chair across from them, and Wade returned, handed a hot mug to Jim, then sat in the rocker.

Jim sipped. Then he talked. “They found Colby’s Blazer in a deep ravine, up on a side road north of town.” He wrinkled his brow. “Devil…something or other.”

“Devil’s Drop,” Wade said. “How the hell did he survive the plunge?”

“He got out before it went over. I don’t know how—he was unconscious when we found him in the woods, and by the time the E.R. docs finished with him, he’d had enough drugs to keep him incoherent for a while.” He lifted his head. “He’ll probably have to stay in the hospital for a couple of days. It could have been a lot worse. The Blazer exploded on impact. It’s burned black, completely gutted. They wouldn’t have even known it was the vehicle we were looking for except that one of the tags came loose on the way down.”

“Thank God he got out,” Kara whispered.

“Do they know what happened? How he wound up over that drop?” Caleb asked.

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