Relentless by Stark Cindy

Author:Stark, Cindy [Stark, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-05-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Mother of God.

Luke kicked his horse to a faster speed when he realized the lights he saw were the headlights of a car angled skyward, and it looked like a small fire burned in the grass. Someone had rolled a vehicle off the highway. As he drew closer, he could see that the upside down vehicle was a truck, and there was also another SUV off the opposite side of the road in a ditch. He didn't recognize the truck, but the red Bronco belonged to Caroline Delaney.

He galloped to Caroline's vehicle and jumped off his horse before Hades had come to a complete stop. Lily followed him down.

The whole ghastly scene unnerved him. The lights on the vehicles were still blazing, but other than that, it was deathly quiet. Hades whinnied his nervousness.

The scent of gasoline permeated the air, and even an idiot would realize this bad situation could get much worse if that grass fire met the leaking gasoline.

A dog barked from inside Caroline's SUV as he approached. He jerked open the door and found her slumped to the side, her seatbelt the only thing holding her in the driver's seat. The front windshield had been shattered, and she had a stream of blood trailing from a gash on her forehead, over her eye, and down her cheek.

In the backseat was little Emma still buckled in her car seat, staring at him with tear-stained, shocked eyes. Their black Border Collie stood watch next to her, growling at Luke. "It's okay, boy," Luke said to the dog.

"Good God," Lily said as she leaned over his shoulder. "Not Caroline and Emma. Where's the baby?"

Emma's bottom lip started to quiver and fresh tears pooled in her eyes.

"It's okay, sweetie," he said to Emma. "I'll get you out of there." He opened the back door and released the latch on her toddler seat.

"She didn't have the baby with her," he said to Lily as he shoved the frightened little girl into her arms. "Take Emma and call for help. Come on, Boo." The dog jumped from the vehicle. "There's fire and gasoline, and I need to get Caroline to safety."

"What about the driver of the truck?" Lily asked, her words echoing the fear that screamed in his head.

"I don't want you going near that fire. Take Emma, Boo and the horses and walk down to the bend in the road. Sit in the grass by the ditch. I'll get Caroline and then check on the other driver."

He swallowed his panic as he hurried to remove Caroline from her car. Getting her lifeless weight from the vehicle wasn't easy, but adrenaline gave him extra strength. He had no idea how bad she was hurt, but his priority at the moment was getting everyone a safe distance from the fire. He hoped he didn't hurt her worse by moving her, but the whole scene could blow at any moment.

When he reached Lily, he laid Caroline softly in the grass. "She's breathing. See if you can stop her bleeding.

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