How to Switch a Groom: Jepson Brothers Romance by Cami Checketts

Author:Cami Checketts [Checketts, Cami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Birch River Publishing
Published: 2019-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

Cally kept pace with Tate, trying not to show how horribly the rocks, twigs, pinecones, and stickers of this forest were pummeling her feet. Kaimbrey. They had to find her and help her. What if Jack and that other guy got to her first? What if they killed Kaimbrey or Brody? She shouldn’t have told Kaimbrey to run. Brody and Tate could’ve rescued them, and they’d both be safe right now. She’d thought she was being so selfless giving Kaimbrey a chance to escape, but she’d really messed up. For the hundredth miserable time, she thought that she should’ve just stayed in Chicago. Crazy that with the crime rate in that city, she was in more danger in her rural mountain hometown.

She stepped on a jagged rock and cried out in pain before she could clamp her mouth shut.

Tate stopped. “Are you okay?”

Cally bit at her lip, trying to nod bravely.

“What is it?”

She shook her head. “Just stepped on something.”

Tate glanced down, and his eyes widened. “Cally!” He sank to the muddy forest floor, pulled her down on his lap, and lifted up her foot to inspect it. “Brody found what we thought might be your shoes earlier, but then everything got so crazy.”

Cally’s heart thumped quicker at his nearness. Relief swept over her. Tate was here and holding her close. Nobody could hurt her with him around. But poor Kaimbrey. She thanked the good Lord for her own protection while praying harder for her friend.

“We can’t keep going with your feet like this.” He carefully pulled out a sticker, and then opened his backpack to retrieve a first-aid kit.

Cally was wrenched back to reality. This wasn’t some romantic moment with Tate. She appreciated that he was concerned for her, but they couldn’t desert Kaimbrey.

She pushed to her feet and started walking away. Tate sprung up after her, wrapped his arms around her waist, and halted her progress.

“We’ve got to help Kaimbrey,” she said.

“We can’t shred your feet.” He pushed out a breath. “Why don’t you go back to the tent and wait for the authorities? They have to be coming soon, and you can tell them which way to go. You can stay safe.”

She shook her head. “Please let me stay with you. I …” She looked down, hating to not sound like the independent, strong woman she’d worked so hard to become. “Don’t want to be alone.” She also didn’t want to slow him down, but the idea of picking her way through the deepening gloom back to the tent, and then staying there with Bull sounded horrible. What if the other men circled back there? What if Bull got free of his ropes? She felt much safer with Tate.

Cally couldn’t bring herself to admit any of that.

He pushed a hand through his hair and squinted into the forest. Focusing on her again, he said, “We’ve only got an hour or so until dark. If we don’t find them soon we’ll have to go back and wait for some help anyway.

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