The Girls of Pearl Harbor by Soraya M. Lane

Author:Soraya M. Lane [Lane, Soraya M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-16T04:00:00+00:00

‘Arthur,’ she whispered, shaking his shoulder as gently as she could. There was no response. Eva bent low and stroked his forehead, biting hard on her bottom lip to stop from crying out. ‘Please, Arthur. Wake up.’

Eva held his hand and stared at him as if she could will him awake as she waited for April to get help inside the hospital. They’d carried him so far, and he was a big man; her shoulders ached, and the muscles in her arms were burning, but she didn’t care. She just needed him to live.

‘I don’t think he’s going to make it,’ Grace murmured beside her, on her knees as they both watched him. ‘Look at his legs.’

They were mangled—that was for sure—and as Eva looked down at them, her eyes traveling over the peculiar angle of both his lower limbs, all she cared about was whether he’d survive. They had great doctors, surgeons who could surely fix his legs; she just wanted him to breathe. To know that they’d found him in time and given him a chance at life.

‘It’s my fault,’ she whispered. Charlie’s death had been her fault, for not letting him go, and now this man was going to die because of her too.

Grace’s arm went around her, holding her tight. ‘How is this your fault? He was injured in a plane crash!’

‘If I hadn’t been so desperate to get going instead of looking around, we would have found him earlier. Those couple of hours might have made a difference; he might have lived . . .’

‘Stop it! We saved him, Eva. The three of us managed to carry this man all the way back here, so don’t you even think like that,’ she said as if she were reprimanding a child. Eva had never seen Grace angry before, but she looked furious now. ‘It’s not your fault this man was injured, and it wasn’t your fault that Charlie was either.’

Eva stared back at Grace. ‘What?’

Grace’s face suddenly collapsed. ‘I’m sorry. I should never have said that. I’m just so tired of seeing you with the weight of Charlie’s death on your shoulders as if it was your fault he was killed. Because it wasn’t.’

Eva opened her mouth and shut it again just as fast. It was easy for Grace to say that.

‘Out of the way!’

She looked up and saw Dr. Grey running toward them along with two corpsmen carrying a stretcher. Within seconds they’d hauled him up as the doctor bent over him, stethoscope in hand as he listened to his heart. The frown dragging his mouth down told her it wasn’t good, and she clung to Grace as Arthur was hurried away into the hospital. Dr. Grey ran beside the stretcher with April trailing behind. And then they were gone.

‘He’s going to die,’ Eva whispered. ‘I just know he’s not going to make it.’

Grace kept hold of her hand and dragged her into the hospital alongside her.

‘They’ll take him straight into surgery, and we can wait for news together,’ Grace said, still leading her.

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