Midnight Sons Volume 3 by DEBBIE MACOMBER

Author:DEBBIE MACOMBER
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA Books
Published: 2010-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

SAWYER DIDN’T THINK he’d ever experienced such frustration. Duke was down, and what information he’d received so far was sketchy at best. For hours now, he’d been sitting by the radio, waiting.

Despite the storm, every one of his available pilots was in the air. He hadn’t asked them to track the emergency locator beam; they’d volunteered.

Sawyer knew that John, Ted, Ralph and the others felt as if they were searching for family. His pilots were a close-knit group, and Sawyer was fiercely proud of each and every man.

Duke was popular with the others, a natural leader. They looked up to him and often sought his advice. He’d been with Midnight Sons longer than almost anyone. Sawyer valued him as a colleague—and as a friend.

But recently they’d come close to losing Duke; he’d threatened to quit. Threatened, nothing. In a fit of righteous indignation, Duke had handed in his notice.

Christian had been at the heart of the trouble. His brother had grounded Duke for a single flight, and the pilot had been furious. To this day Sawyer didn’t know what had happened between them, but Christian had gone over to the bunkhouse and they’d somehow settled their differences.

Sawyer shuddered at the thought of Duke’s leaving. The fact was, he considered Duke his best pilot—certainly his most experienced. If anyone could get out of this alive, it was Duke Porter. But then, Sawyer was uncomfortably aware that these kinds of decisions often weren’t in a pilot’s hands.

More than ten years earlier Sawyer had gone down in a plane himself. He hadn’t been alone, either; he’d been with his father. Weather conditions had been bad, but better than they were now.

Unfortunately that hadn’t saved David O’Halloran. Before help could arrive, Sawyer’s father had died in his arms.

Memories of that day flooded his mind, charged his senses back to those last moments when he’d watched the life ebb out of his father. The pain returned, as fresh now as it had been that afternoon. Sawyer rubbed his eyes, wanting to stop thinking, stop feeling. Forget.

Inhaling sharply as he tried to push the memories aside, he ignored the pain. But the scene remained steadfastly in his mind. Again and again it flickered like an old silent movie, frame after frame. Impotent rage and defeat came at him like a fist in the dark.

“Sawyer.”

He gasped and whirled around to face his wife. His relief was instant. Abbey—his wife, his love, his salvation.

“Have you heard anything more?” she asked quietly. Her face was tight with worry.

“Nothing,” he told her.

Abbey walked to his side and slipped her arm around his shoulders. Sawyer welcomed her touch, needed her tenderness to help erase the memories. His fears for Duke and Tracy were overwhelming.

Sawyer placed his arm around Abbey’s thickening waist. Touching her gave him comfort no words could express. That she was pregnant with their child was a second miracle for a man who hadn’t expected the first.

She bent down and kissed the top of his head. “Everything will be fine.

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