Lost at the Crossing (Rail Riders Book 2) by Nicky James

Author:Nicky James [James, Nicky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2021-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter thirteen

Elian

The afternoon sun was a blessing. Once I’d cleared the emergency room doors, I tipped my head to the sky and closed my eyes, breathing it in. My heart pummeled my ribs, and my palms were slick, but my senses were coming back online now that I had more open space around me. The steady whomp in my ears calmed, and the pressure eased.

When the spinning slowed, I opened my eyes and peered down the road in both directions. The hospital parking structure was across the street. It was a three-story concrete drive-up, enough to accommodate the comings and goings of a small hospital. A quiet place where people usually didn’t linger.

I crossed at the crosswalk and jumped a concrete barrier to get inside. It was darker and cooler out of the sun. The scent of gasoline and damp pavement hung in the air. Tyler would be busy for a while, and I just wanted somewhere to go where I could decompress. The idea of heading back to Dodger’s tonight, catching out again tomorrow, and meeting up with Killian and his boyfriend the following day had me in a knot. Add to it sitting in a crowded hospital waiting room, and I was overdone. I had to find some way to cope.

I scaled the parking structure until I was on the top level, back under the spring sunshine. There weren’t as many cars this far up. Most people preferred the spots closer to the ground level. I headed to the far corner where it was the least populated and jumped up to sit on the support wall. I straddled it, observing the downtown traffic three stories below.

I wasn’t surprised when Willow showed up a few minutes later. She crossed toward me and leaned on the concrete support wall about two feet away, glancing down at the street. I kept expecting her to say something, but she didn’t. She had that typical blank expression I couldn’t read, but her presence didn’t flair my anxiety.

Together, we watched the cars and trucks zip along the road below. People young and old sauntered in and out of the emergency room. An ambulance screamed into the ambulance bay, two paramedics offloading a stretcher and taking the person inside. A teenager down the street hollered at his friend, his language colorful. The whomping bass of music briefly sounded as a car drove by, its windows rolled down. The driver was clearly disregarding the speed limit.

Willow shifted around, putting her back to the wall, and scanned the parking lot. I waited. Still, she said nothing.

When she noticed my rucksack lying on the ground by my feet, she stole a quick glance in my direction before moving toward it. My heart lurched into my throat, and I reacted, jumping down from the wall and trying to tear it from her hands.

She was faster and got her shoulder up, deflecting and grabbing my ruck, spinning and blocking me with her back. When I tried to scoot around her to grab it again, she dodged, ducking under my arm and dragging my bag with her.

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