Stalking Season by Sandra Robbins

Author:Sandra Robbins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

TEN

Cheyenne awoke to bright lights shining in her face. She frowned and raised her arm to cover her eyes. Something about her surroundings seemed familiar, but she couldn’t figure out what it was. She turned her head to the side and almost gasped when she saw Luke sitting in a chair beside her. He was bent forward with his hands covering his face and his elbows propped on his knees.

She tried to speak, but her throat was dry and his name came out of her mouth in a raspy sound. “Luke.”

He immediately lowered his hands and sat up straight. A look of relief flooded his face as he stared down at her. “You’re finally awake. The doctor said you’d come around when you were ready, but I was beginning to doubt he knew what he was talking about.”

“Doctor?” she croaked. “Am I back in the hospital?”

“Yes. Do you remember what happened last night?”

She lay still for a moment and tried to recall what had happened after they left the restaurant. Slowly the thoughts began to form in her mind. “A truck. I remember a truck. He was going so fast, and then you grabbed my neck and pushed me down.”

Luke nodded. “Someone shot at us. We went off the road and hit a tree. You’ve been unconscious ever since.”

Cheyenne tried to push up in bed, but Luke put a restraining hand on her shoulder. “Don’t sit up. You’ve had a bad bump on your head. The doctor ordered a CT scan, and it didn’t show any internal injuries, which is why I couldn’t figure out why you didn’t wake up. You do have a bad cut across the back of your head. They put some staples in it, but you lost a lot of blood.”

She frowned as she tried to take in all that he was saying. They’d been shot at and they’d gone down a mountainside? She closed her eyes and tried to remember, but she couldn’t. It was rather frightening not to be able to recall something, but the fact that Luke was the first person she’d seen when she opened her eyes made it seem not as bad as it might have been. Her eyes closed for a moment as the guilt consumed her.

His hand squeezed her arm, and she heard his soft voice. “Cheyenne, are you all right? Do I need to call a nurse?”

She shook her head, opened her eyes and stared up at him. “I can’t believe you stayed after the way I talked to you. I’m sorry, Luke. I didn’t mean those things I said. Can you forgive me?” Her last word ended on a sob.

His face softened, and his hand gave another little squeeze on her arm. “I forgive you, but I was wrong, too. I overreacted to your going back to the Wild West show, and I shouldn’t have. I don’t have any right to tell you what to do. So I have to ask you to forgive me, too.

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