Going Nessie (Finnegan & Morrow Book 3) by Jess Whitecroft

Author:Jess Whitecroft [Whitecroft, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic comedy, LGBTQ, romance, cryptids
Published: 2020-07-19T23:00:00+00:00

7

Finn

They had not been kidding about the temperature of Loch Ness.

Much later, I found out that if I’d gone in without a life jacket I could have been dead as soon as I hit the water. The first thing I did – first thing everyone did, as it turns out – was gasp. If I’d gone under while gasping that would have been it. I had to fight to keep the breath in my lungs. The cold was like an icy fist. It was all I could think about, all I could feel, and I had to fight to keep focused on Sprocket, who was flailing about in a half frozen panic.

Somehow we got back onto the boat. By that time everything was going gray around the edges and Chase was telling me over and over that I was okay, everything was okay, you’re going to be okay. I heard an ambulance siren somewhere and passed out.

After that I remembered things in flashes – riding down a hospital hallway under a crackling silver space blanket, having those sticky ECG pads attached to my chest, and through it all Chase was there, looking pale and scared to death. And he still kept telling me everything was going to be okay.

At some point I dozed off, plunging headlong into a post hangover nap. When I woke up it was dark outside and Chase was tickling the palm of my hand. It was like an absent-minded thing that he did whenever I got to be the little spoon in bed, and I’d always liked it – just one of those casual ‘hey, I’m here’ touches that we’d fallen into the more we got used to each other. When he saw I was awake he scooped up my hand in both of his and kissed it. “Hey,” he said, in a breath, like he’d been holding it for ages. His eyes were so, so green. “Hey, you. How are you doing?”

I peeled my whisky flavored tongue from the roof of my mouth. “Uh…not dead?” I mean, I was guessing at this point, but judging by how godawful I felt I figured I was probably still on this side of the clouds. “Is the dog okay?”

“The dog is fine,” said Chase. His eyes overflowed and I realized that his eyes always looked greener when he’d been crying. “Thanks to you. And no thanks to me.”

“Oh, come on,” I said, trying to sit up. “Could have happened to anyone. You see a lake monster, it’s human nature to…I don’t know…”

“Fling a tennis ball at it?”

“Sure. Something like that. Is there any water?” He poured me a cup and I sipped. I don’t know if Scottish water was different, but it tasted like heaven. “So when can I get out of here?”

“When the doctors say so,” said Chase.

“I’m fine,” I said, picking an ECG pad off my nipple. “I just took a dip is all. It was kinda cold…”

“Finn, it was forty degrees,” he said. “They said you had a cold shock response.

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