Saving You by Jessie Evans

Author:Jessie Evans [Evans, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, sexy, small town, Contemporary, novella, steamy, firefighter, Jessie Evans
ISBN: 9781940848150
Google: oiMOBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00I8QTQ6C
Publisher: Jessie Evans
Published: 2014-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

At ten after two, Mick got a cold, miserable feeling in his gut way too intense to be a hunger pain, especially after the massive breakfast and lunch he’d eaten. At a quarter after two, he shut down his computer and went to turn on the police scanner—deciding that stalking the emergency crews’ radio signals would ease his stress about what was going on with the rescue effort—but his cell rang before he could flip the switch.

The second he saw Jake’s number, the hair on Mick’s neck prickled. He and Jake were close, but not talking-on-the-phone close, and Jake didn’t make social calls while he was on duty. There were only a few reasons his brother-in-law-to-be would be calling him, and none of them were good.

“Tell me Faith’s okay,” Mick said, putting the phone to his ear and bracing one hand on the back of the couch, pretty sure his legs were going to give out if Jake replied with anything but “she’s fine.”

“We don’t know,” Jake said, the misery in his voice making it clear how worried he was. “Her team lost sight of her five minutes ago.”

Five minutes ago. Ten after two.

Mick’s eyes squeezed shut as he fought a wave of panic. Ten after two, it was like some part of him had fucking known.

“She was trying to rescue a stranded dog when an uprooted tree came rushing through the flood water out of nowhere,” Jake continued. “The team said they tried to pull her in, but the current was too strong. Faith ended up unlatching her tether to get out of the way before the tree ran her over.”

“But she was okay,” Mick said, fighting to get the words out past the vice gripping his throat. “She was conscious, right? Her head was above water?”

“She was conscious,” Jake confirmed. “And she’s a strong swimmer, but that current is deadly and the debris in the water even more so. The ground’s so damp from all the rain the past week, trees are falling left and right.”

“So what are you doing to find her?” Mick asked, anger rising inside of him. This wasn’t the time to talk about how much danger Faith was in, it was time to figure out how to get her out of it. “If her cell’s working, we can track her location, right? Or her beeper? Don’t you have some kind of—”

“She left her cell in the boat when she went in after the dog, and she wasn’t wearing her beeper,” Jake said. “But I sent her team to search in the direction she disappeared. And as soon as my other boats deliver the people they’ve got on board, I’ll send them back out to assist in the search. All the residents have been evacuated, but Faith’s team volunteered to go back and rescue as many pets as they could.”

Of course they had, of course Faith had, because she had a huge heart and knew how much an animal could mean to their owner. Mick knew that, like he knew that risking her life to save others was a part of Faith’s job.

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