The Cowboy's Summer Love by The Cowboy's Summer Love (mobi)

Author:The Cowboy's Summer Love (mobi)
Language: eng
Format: mobi

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Tess should have called in sick. She thought heart sick should count. It was her day to work acute care, which meant she was treating patients in the hospital. If only today was home visits, she could have used the fresh air and solitude while driving from one appointment to the next to help clear her thoughts.

As it was, she had a pounding headache and couldn’t wait for the end of her work day to arrive.

After Rick took her home and assured her he would be fine last night, she went to bed and spent hours alternating between tears and prayers.

Her heart ached for Travis, for the suffering he was forcing himself to endure on his own, and for the shame he felt unnecessarily.

She was both afraid for him and a little afraid of him.

It was obvious something was bothering him last night and instead of reaching out to him, trying to help, Tess assumed he was acting like a jerk because Rick was there with her. So she teased and flirted, cozying up to Rick just to make Travis jealous.

What kind of friend was she, anyway? She was using Rick to get at Travis and that wasn’t fair to either one of them. Maybe she should move somewhere new and start over, but the thought of not seeing Travis again made her fight back a sob.

Sitting in the office trying to focus enough to finish some paperwork, Tess answered the phone after it rang three times.

“Tess Morgan,” she said, trying to sound professional, if not cheery.

“Tess, this is Sandy in ER. Two guys brought in an injured windsurfer and he’s not carrying any identification. He keeps asking for you, at least I think it’s you. He’s seems to be a little disoriented. Can you come down and see what you can do?”

Somehow Tess knew, right to the very core of her being, the injured man was going to be Travis.

“I’ll be right there,” Tess said, hanging up the phone and running to the nearest elevator. When it didn’t immediately arrive, she ran around the corner and down two flights of stairs to the emergency room. The entire time, she kept up a steady prayer of “please, let him be okay.”

Racing to the nurse’s station, they pointed her to a curtained area where she could hear a familiar voice saying, “Please, I want Tessa. Just get Tess, she’ll make it better.”

Her heart sank to the floor and she had to take a moment to steel herself for whatever she was going to find. Sucking in a deep gulp of air, she straightened her spine and walked around the curtain.

Expecting blood and gore, Tess was surprised that Travis looked fine, except for the pain that formed deep brackets around his mouth and eyes, and the sickly ashen gray tone of his skin. He was wearing a wet suit and didn’t even have on a pair of shoes. She couldn’t see any blood, any bruising anywhere. He was, however, holding both sides of the gurney in a death grip with his eyes squeezed shut.

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