The City That Care Forgot by Liliana Hart

Author:Liliana Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 7th Press

Chapter Ten

Two days and nights passed, and there was still no change in Shane’s condition.

Rachel’s nerves strung tighter the longer time went on and no word came from Jones Daugherty. She found herself jumping at every creak and shadow, and the safe house was starting to feel like a prison instead of a haven. The duffle bags that had belonged to the shooter in Tulsa were full of guns and cash, and she made sure each weapon was loaded and put in a spot she could reach easily.

The wound in Shane’s shoulder was healing nicely, but the fever hadn’t gone away. He woke in fits and starts, and his body was restless on the bed. His speech was jumbled and incomprehensible, except for the times he’d called out for Maggie. It was Maggie he saw in his fevered state, and he’d begged her forgiveness repeatedly. Rachel tried not to let the slip hurt her, but it had. Because she could never be the woman he really wanted.

His nightmares hadn’t stopped just because of his injuries, but now he was trapped in them, caught somewhere between the past and the present, and the torture only stopped when the final scene had played out. It destroyed her to see his torment over and over again, and she was helpless to stop it.

Rachel did her best to cool his fevered body off with damp rags, but his skin was hot to the touch and seemed to grow hotter as the hours passed. She whispered assurances in his ear as he thrashed about on the bed and held him down when his struggles loosened the bandages over his shoulder. She’d had little luck getting medicine or soup down his throat, but the few times he’d woken she’d cajoled, begged, or forced them down. She went to bed each night feeling as if she’d fought a battle. And lost.

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