Light This Candle (Harlequin More Than Words) by Dees Cindy

Author:Dees, Cindy [Dees, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-03-31T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Mitch had never moved so fast in his life. He and Cassidy tore out of the apartment and down to his truck. He raced across town like a formula one driver, using every offensive driving skill he’d learned in the military. They sprinted into the hospital and didn’t slow down until they were standing in the elevator watching the floor numbers ding past.

“You okay?” he asked Cassidy. Her face was pale, her eyes unnaturally large.

She shook her head, and he pulled her into his arms for a quick, hard hug. The fact that she didn’t protest was an indication of just how distracted she was.

The door opened and he turned her loose. The ICU floor was crowded with medical personnel he didn’t recognize. The only one he knew was Dr. Mistler. “Who are all these people?” he muttered to Cassidy.

“Transplant team.”

She reached for his hand and squeezed his fingers until they went numb as the doctors explained there had been a car accident in Columbus. A young child who was a designated organ donor was in intensive care in the Ohio State University Hospital and not expected to live. The team here needed to do a series of tests to match Cody’s blood and tissue with the potential donor’s, and they had to do it fast. She scrawled her signature a half dozen times on various forms, and the team surged into Cody’s room.

He and Cassidy followed. At first the child looked alarmed and his beeping monitors went wild. But then he saw his mother and his face relaxed. The little boy looked over at Mitch and mouthed, “Hi.”

“Hey, buddy,” Mitch replied, grinning. Man, he admired that kid. Feeling what had to be complete terror, Cody could still smile at him and Cassidy. The child remained stoic through a series of pokes and prods and an ultrasound of his heart.

And then, as fast as the mob had descended upon the ICU, it disappeared. In a few minutes, only Rose Parker and the bedside nurse were left.

“Now what?” Cassidy asked. Mitch heard the quaver in her voice.

Rose gestured for the two of them to step out into the central area. The woman closed Cody’s door behind them before answering, “Now we wait, honey.”

“How long?”

“Until that poor child in Columbus dies.”

Cassidy slapped a horrified hand over her mouth. “Here I was all excited about Cody getting better when some other family is about to lose their precious baby.” She turned into Mitch’s chest and he felt tears wet his skin through his shirt.

This compassion was part and parcel of why he was falling for her so hard and fast. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Rewind. Falling for a woman? Him?

He turned the notion over in his head a few times and decided it wasn’t so difficult to believe, after all. Cassidy was the most extraordinary mom he’d ever met. Exactly the kind of mother he wished his own had been—

His thoughts derailed. He wasn’t doing some bizarre need-fulfillment thing here, was he? Although his conscious mind denied the idea adamantly, part of him doubted the denial.

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