Shadows Have Gone by Lissa Bryan

Author:Lissa Bryan [Bryan, Lissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Writer’s Coffee Shop
Published: 2015-03-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Justin found himself staring up at the roof of the tent. He tried to sit up and fell back when a bolt of agony shot through his arm. What the hell had happened? He had been walking along with Carly and then—

Pain. He lifted a hand to his chest and felt a thick bandage covering his upper pectoral, shoulder, and part of his back.

Carly lay curled up on her sleeping bag beside him, fully dressed down to her tennis shoes. Her face was almost colorless, except for the dark shadows beneath her eyes. Her hair was a tangled mop that didn’t look like it had been brushed in days. She looked like hell.

He peeled up the edge of his bandage to peek at the damage and winced. Fuck, that was one ugly mess. It didn’t appear to be a gunshot. It was more of an oblong slit, no shredded edges, very little subcutaneous hemorrhage. An arrow wound, likely. He could see where it had been badly inflamed, but it looked like it was starting to heal and the redness was subsiding.

Well, he’d live, anyway. He patted the tape back down. He glanced over at Carly. She was obviously exhausted, and he hated to disturb her, but he needed to know what had happened. He said her name and she responded, though he didn’t think she was fully awake.

“Carly, are you alright?”

She sat up, eyes wide. “Justin?”

“Yeah.” He rubbed a hand over his face. “God, I feel like shit.”

“You got shot,” she said, and her eyes filled with tears. “You’re awake. Oh, thank God, you’re awake.”

“How long was I out?”

“Days and days,” Carly replied. “I don’t know. A long time.”

His bladder was happy to point out how long he’d been out of action. He tried to get up, but couldn’t, and was painfully embarrassed to have to let her get him a bedpan. She gave him a little privacy to use it, and both Shadowfax and Sam took the opportunity to come and greet him. Their enthusiasm for seeing him awake confirmed, if nothing else, that he’d been out of it for a while. They seemed very glad to have him back.

“Seems everyone was worried about me,” Justin said when Carly returned to the tent with a bottle of water for him.

“I was so worried you were going to die. I didn’t know if I was giving you the right antibiotic, or if I was taking care of you properly or—”

He felt terrible for her but was impressed at what she must have done to save him. Without training, she had followed her instincts and somehow managed to do the right thing. “You did just fine. Now, tell me what happened.”

“You don’t remember?”

“I remember riding down the highway after we crossed the border, and that’s all.”

“We were ambushed. A woman and a man were hiding behind a wrecked car.” Carly stopped for a moment and closed her eyes. “The woman had a crossbow. She shot you first, and you fell like you’d been .

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