Finding Miranda by Chacon Iris

Author:Chacon, Iris [Chacon, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: amazon, cThriller
ISBN: 9781519400246
Google: 0gxZjwEACAAJ
Amazon: B00U31MW8O
Publisher: Delia L. Stewart
Published: 2015-02-25T23:00:00+00:00

She wrapped her arms about his waist and ran her hands over his big frame as far and as fast as she could. She didn’t even think of stifling her sobs, and between each one she cried out some version of, “I’m fine. I’m all right. Are you hurt? Are you bleeding?”

Then they both heard a dull thud like an overstuffed duffle falling off a baggage cart. Miranda turned her head and opened her eyes. The gunman lay facedown in the dirt, illuminated by his flashlight on the ground beside him.

“Miranda!” demanded Shepard. “Answer me!”

She swallowed her sobs as reality penetrated her hysteria. On a grateful impulse, she lifted herself on tiptoes and gave him a short but solid kiss on the lips. “I’m okay,” she breathed. “Are you hurt?”

“No worse than before.” He hugged her to him, then grasped her shoulders and pushed her back an arm’s length. “What did you think you were doing?! Are you crazy!? You could’ve been killed!”

Martha Cleary stepped into the white oval cast by the dead man’s fallen flashlight. Her rifle hung from the crook of her elbow. “Ain’t gone be no more killin’ tonight,” she said. She picked up the flashlight and shone it across one limp body and then the other. “Them fellers picked the wrong place ta do their mischief in. We takes care of our own in Minokee.”

Engines rumbled on the asphalt beyond the trees, and blue lights flashed between the black shadows of palmetto bushes, southern pines, strangler figs, stopper trees, cypress, and live oaks.

“‘Bout time they got here,” Martha groused. She gave Shep and Miranda a thorough inspection, heads to toes, with her light. “Y’all better stay here. I’ll hightail it out there and bring back the paramedics.”

“Oh, Martha!” was all Miranda could get out.

“Don’t you dare thank me, chile!” the old lady bellowed as she moved briskly down the trail toward the police and fire vehicles.

Shep and Miranda leaned on each other and concentrated on breathing in and breathing out. When their heart rates had settled into less than a full gallop, and breathing had become less of a chore, Shep said, “Bean, I’m sorry but I gotta ... sit d–.”

He passed out mid-word. Miranda braced herself against the trunk of their tree and managed to lower him to the ground without injuring either of them further.

Minutes later four paramedics with large lights, medical supplies, and a stretcher rushed toward her on the trail. She couldn’t remember, later, what was said or by whom. She only knew that Shepard was being airlifted to Montgomery Memorial Hospital, and that she was staying by his side come hell or high water or imperious mothers or dishonest politicians or would-be murderers.

Miranda had appointed herself the new Dave.

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