Lethal Rescue by Elizabeth Goddard

Author:Elizabeth Goddard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-05T18:50:04+00:00

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Tracy screamed, calling after David.

She couldn’t believe it. Had she just seen David and Santino disappear through the fire? There must be someplace to run between the flames. Surely he’d found a way through to the other side... But Tracy was alone. How did she escape? The heat felt as if it would melt her even standing a few hundred yards away.

David had told her to run and get to safety, but safety was something she had felt only when she was at David’s side. She couldn’t run away and leave him behind. She bent over as racking coughs took control of her body.

Someone approached from behind. Tracy turned. Fearing it was Santino. Hoping it was David. But, no, it was a firefighter in full gear. He reached for Tracy, but she pulled away.

“David went that way. You have to save him.”

The firefighter looked in the distance and shook his head, as if there was no hope of David surviving. He reached for Tracy again. She didn’t want to go, but he tugged her with him, intent on getting her to safety.

“No!” Tracy yelled, reaching in the direction she’d seen David and Santino go.

But it was no use. The fireman carried her to safety.

At the Incident Command Center, Tracy stood in the parking lot, emergency vehicle lights blinking all around her. She tugged a blanket someone had thrown over her shoulders closer and stared at the fire blazing in the distance. It was consuming the side of the mountain and heading for the town, which could be yet another casualty of Santino’s retaliation against Tracy.

The firefighters were creating a firebreak to save the town.

A backfire.

A fireman had saved her life, carried her to safety down a path she could never have found on her own to escape the flames. But David hadn’t emerged, and she feared he’d perished in the flames trying to keep Santino away from her. And that was why she hadn’t wanted to love. She couldn’t stand to go through it all over again.

And yet here she was, reliving the nightmare.

How could Tracy live with this? Even if free will was to blame for Santino’s actions, rather than God, how could she hold on to faith in a life where everything she loved was taken away from her?

Admittedly, she’d lost touch with God. Stopped praying as much as she should, when her reaction should have been the exact opposite. Seeing David’s faith, and hearing the way he prayed, and his grandmother, too, had taught her that much. Reignited her own faith. But now it was faltering again.

She pulled the blanket around her tighter. When the smoke settled, literally, maybe things would look differently. And she knew in the end, God took bad things and turned them to good.

Tracy was still waiting to see good come of this.

That scripture from Isaiah 61 came to mind. Maybe because she’d recently seen it in a framed cross-stitch at Katy’s house.

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

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