Love Happens Anyway by RJ Scott

Author:RJ Scott [Scott, RJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Love Lane Books Ltd
Published: 2017-12-01T18:30:00+00:00

Luke

I expected Derek to call me, or something. After all, he’d found out that I was a firefighter for real, which had to have made him think something.

Anything.

But nope. All I got was a generic email from him asking after my health and confirming the overnight stay at a place called the Bear Mountain Inn. This was a high-priced hotel complex with cabins, just over an hour from the city. Apparently, Derek and his college friends met there for one night every Christmas season.

I wondered why it was important he had a boyfriend at this event, but of course I wouldn’t ask him, it was none of my business. And that is all it was, business. Nothing more. Otherwise he would have asked more in this email. Personal things about me, wanting to know what the real deal was, what the truth was, and why I hadn't told him about being a firefighter before now.

No, he was more interested in telling me that there would be a secret Santa, but he’d dealt with that for me. I had a list of clothes to bring, from jeans to a coat.

Everything felt cold and clinical. Nothing like the heat of the kisses we’d shared, or the way he’d looked at me after I’d jumped out of the car to help that trapped woman.

I clicked the link to the accommodation, a four-bedroom stone, rustic mountain cabin, complete with a cozy front porch and a huge sunken living room with added wood-burning fireplace. Each room had a queen-size bed and I checked out the hike we’d need to get to it from the main hotel.

My leg was still not well after last night’s drama. My knee was sore and swollen, and I was laid back on my sofa, ice on my thigh, and Sara buzzing around me fussing.

“Why,” she said, for what must have been the fourth time since I called her. “Why didn’t you just call 911?”

I didn’t usually worry her about details. Only ever used generic terms like, there was a fire, or a car accident, or a kitten in a tree, but she wouldn’t stop, and it wasn’t as if this was likely to happen again, but I’d seen through the window and she needed me to…

“Look.” I remained patient. “Sit down.”

Sara sat next to me and was agitated.

“So, it’s like this. When I looked in the window, I saw the blood and her neck and I knew she was bleeding out. I needed to stem the bleeding, because in the time it would take for first responders to get there she would have died. I used my fingers and plugged the hole where the door had hurt her and the buckle had caught her neck.” Sara paled, but I’d started now. “It doesn’t matter that they let me go, Sara, I’ll always have that instinct to help if I can. She was lucky we were behind her and could help her the minute after the crash.”

Sara was still pale, but she placed a hand on my good thigh and squeezed a little.

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