Good Time Cowboy by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2018-06-14T15:35:39+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

SHE WAS ALONE in bed.

That was Lindy’s first thought when she woke up. Her second thought was wondering why she had woken up. It wasn’t because of the empty bed. Wyatt had left as soon as they had finished making love.

Having sex.

He had made it abundantly clear that was all he was there for last night. She was fine with that. She needed that, in fact. So why it bothered her at all, she didn’t know.

It wasn’t why she had woken up, though. The little cabin was comfortable, and quiet, and for a moment she just lay there, puzzled by the faint background noise that was coming from...

Her phone was buzzing.

She scrambled to the edge of the bed, and grabbed the phone off her nightstand, where she had left it right before she had fallen into a fitful, lonely sleep in the unfamiliar bed.

She didn’t recognize the phone number.

She answered. “Hello?”

“Melinda Parker?”

“This is she.”

“This is Three Sisters Regional Medical Center. We’re calling because you’re on your brother’s list of emergency contacts.”

“What happened?” Immediately, she was up, her heart hammering sickly in her throat. “Is he okay?”

No, no, no. She started scrambling around the room, looking for her clothes, trying to make sense of what this call actually was.

“He had an accident tonight.”

“Car or bull?” she asked, fumbling with her bra.

“Uh...bull. And I apologize that it’s taken so long to call you, but the doctors have been working to get him stabilized, and he wasn’t able to talk to us.”

“To get him stabilized? Does that mean he’s... He’s not stable?”

“He is for now. He was intubated. He is not breathing on his own, and he isn’t conscious. He’s had some significant swelling around the brain, and other injuries...”

“I’m coming. Right now.”

“We can give you more information upon your arrival.”

“Thank you,” she said, hanging up the phone, sitting there feeling numb. Had she really just thanked someone for calling her and telling her that her brother was... Unconscious? In an accident? She knew that was a possibility. She always knew. That was the nature of playing at such a dangerous sport. But nothing had ever happened. Not until now. All this time and nothing had ever happened. He had always been safe. He had swelling on his brain. He wasn’t conscious.

“Oh... God.” She pressed her hand to her chest and sobbed the word. It wasn’t a blasphemy. It was a prayer. It was all she could think of. She said it, over and over again, because she didn’t know what else to say, all while she was getting dressed. And when her numb feet carried her to the front door of the main house, she wasn’t sure quite why.

Except that Wyatt knew Dane. And Wyatt was a bull rider. So Wyatt knew. He understood. Whatever the real reason, that was the one that she gave herself.

It was the one that worked.

She knocked, knocked until her knuckles were numb, until she heard footsteps coming toward the door. It was wrenched open a moment later, and Wyatt was standing there, shirtless and looking disheveled.

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