Rocky Mountain Rescue by Elle James

Author:Elle James [James, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Page Inc

Chapter 10

Max hit the ground hard enough that it knocked the breath out of him and made his ears ring. Debris rained down on him, and he covered his head with his hands.

As soon as he could breathe again, he got to his hands and knees and looked for JoJo. She was flat on her back on the ground, her cellphone lying a few feet away. Max’s ears rang, and every sound came to him as if from the end of a very long tunnel. He crawled across the pavement to JoJo.

“Hey, JoJo,” he said, his voice echoing in his ears. “JoJo, sweetheart.”

She blinked her eyes open and stared up at him. “What happened?”

“An explosion. Stay here. I want to make sure there aren’t other people in the apartments next to yours.”

“It was in my apartment?” She pushed to a sitting position and reached for her cellphone.

“Yes, get in my truck and stay there.”

She shook her head, and then swayed. “No, I’m going with you. If there are people in there, we need to get them out.”

Knowing he couldn’t hold her back, Max held out his hand, drew JoJo to her feet and made sure she could stand before he pulled his cellphone out of his pocket and dialed 911.

“I was doing that when my apartment exploded.” She rubbed the back of her head. “Now, I know how you felt.”

He gave the information to the dispatcher then ran toward the building. He headed for the apartment next door to JoJo’s. Before he reached the door, a man jerked it open and staggered out, wearing nothing but boxer shorts, his hair dusted with sheetrock.

“What the hell happened?” he said.

“Gas leak explosion,” Max responded. “Is there anyone else in your apartment?”

The man shook his head. “No.”

“Stay out of the building while I check the rest of the apartments,” he said.

JoJo joined him as he went to the door of the apartment on the other side of hers. “Last I knew, this one was empty,” she said. “I haven’t kept up to make sure.”

Max banged on the door. No one responded. He banged again. Sirens could be heard in the distance, the volume increasing as fire and emergency vehicles neared the apartment complex. Max tried kicking in the door. He couldn’t do it with his bum leg, but he had to balance on his bad leg if he wanted to kick with the other one. He just didn’t have the strength to break the door in with a kick.

By then, the other residents of the apartment were coming out of theirs, farther away from JoJo’s unit. They emerged in the dark, wearing their pajamas or bathrobes. An officer’s vehicle pulled up, followed by a firetruck and an ambulance. Max met the sheriff as he got out of his vehicle and explained what had happened.

“You guys need to see the emergency medical technician and make sure you’re okay and don’t have concussions.” The sheriff pointed to the waiting ambulance. “Go.”

Max nodded and took JoJo over to the ambulance where the EMT checked them out.

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