Reckless (Blue Collar Boyfriends Book 1) by Jessi Gage

Author:Jessi Gage [Gage, Jessi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Jessi Gage
Published: 2014-03-15T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

A woman’s voice faded in and out with the throbbing pain crushing DG’s entire head. “Camilla? Cami? Oh, honey, come back to me, please.” The voice was familiar, and too loud.

The light pushing at her closed eyelids was too sharp.

A whimper climbed her throat and got stuck. She choked. Her body convulsed as she fought for air.

“Yes, hello? Hello? Cami’s waking up. She’s waking up! She’s in pain. Please hurry!”

She recognized the voice she’d heard in the fog when she’d been trying to get back to Derek.

“I’ll be right there, Mrs. Arlington.” Another voice, staticky and small.

“Oh, Cami sweetheart, hang on,” the first voice said. Cami meant nothing to her, but sweetheart did. She was Derek’s sweetheart. His DG. The pain could not rip her in two as long as she had an identity.

Hands on her shoulders tried to restrain her, but they were tentative and therefore didn’t belong to Derek. She fought them.

Noise bombarded her in a rush of urgent voices and the rattle of wheels over tile. More hands restrained her, not tentatively.

She fought those as well, still choking, dying.

Someone pried one of her eyes open and blinded her with needles of light. An authoritative female voice said, “Stop fighting the tube, Cami. You need it to help you breathe.

You’ve been in an accident. Squeeze my hand if you understand.”

She squeezed the cool hand gripping hers, not sure why she obeyed. These people…they were killing her. Where was Derek? She tried to ask and only choked more.

“Cami, I need you to calm down.” The no-nonsense voice sounded clear and close to her ear. “You’re in the hospital. You’re hurt very badly. You need to calm down so you don’t hurt yourself worse.”

The words hospital and hurt registered. She forced herself to relax in stages. Air filled her lungs.

Is Derek coming? She wanted to ask, but the air-giving tube prevented it.

He’d said he wouldn’t let go, but he must have, because she’d been ripped away from him again, just not by the fog this time.

Agony at the forced separation burned her from the inside out. She scrunched up her face with the empty ache, only to have pain scour her cheeks and forehead, her left eye and ear, her scalp.

“You have to relax, Cami. Please try to remain calm.” Someone Velcro’d a blood pressure cuff around her arm. Other hands were on her, too, and other people spoke nearby, but she focused on the calm voice. “Your face is bruised, and you have some stitches. I need you to try to keep still. You won’t be able to talk, but we’ll bring you a pad and a pencil so you can communicate. I’ll answer all your questions, but first I’m going to examine you. Can you open your eye on your own?”

Eye? Not eyes? That didn’t sound good. She tried to breathe through the impossible sense of loss, and focused on opening her “eye.” The right one opened a crack. She slammed it shut again as angry sparks of light stabbed through to her brain.

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