The Haven Series 1: Tiger Bound by Tressie Lockwood

The Haven Series 1: Tiger Bound by Tressie Lockwood

Author:Tressie Lockwood [Lockwood, Tressie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Sugar and Spice Press
Published: 2013-01-06T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter Eleven

Heath leaned inside the vehicle, the right side of which he’d just scraped clean of paint when he pulled into the parking lot of the hospital. He unbuckled Deja’s seatbelt and checked her pulse. At first, he thought she didn’t have one, but at last he found it, and she drew in breaths so shallow her chest didn’t rise by much.

“Do you want me to help carry her?” the small man asked.

Heath flicked his gaze toward him, and the man shrank away.

“You shouldn’t be here,” he told him. “You should disappear, because they will find you and kill you.” Heath didn’t know why he’d come all this way, but the man had helped guide him through the facility to the parking lot where they retrieved the man’s car. “Thank you for your help.”

Heath turned his back on the man with Deja in his arms, and he rushed into the emergency room. People milled around waiting for their names to be called. Hospital staff scurried about or worked with lethargy behind a desk.

“Someone help her,” he demanded.

All eyes shifted to him and Deja, and he could imagine the thoughts flying through their heads. Deja in a shirt and nothing else, and him in ragged jeans, bare-chested, and barefoot. There hadn’t been time to find clothes or shoes.

For a moment, no one moved. “Please,” he barked.

A nurse ran over to them. “What seems to be the problem, sir?”

“She’s not breathing much, and a few times over here, she seized. I can’t get her to wake up.” His voice cracked on the last part, and he cleared his throat.

“What’s her name?”

“Deja.”

“Deja, honey, can you hear me?” The nurse took her vitals and talked to Deja while two others brought out a gurney to place her on. Heath followed close on their heels as they wheeled her toward two wide doors. One of the men guiding the bed slapped a palm on a button, and the doors swung open. They continued on until the staff pushed Deja into a smaller room. “Sir, you’ll have to wait outside.”

“I need to know she’ll be okay.”

“The doctor has to examine her. Why don’t you get the paperwork completed while you wait?” She didn’t pause for his response, but shut the door in his face. Heath paced, running hands through his hair. How the hell could he concentrate on paperwork when all he could think about was Deja?

He stalked up and down the hall like a caged animal and clenched his hands into fists when he thought of it. He was an animal, and Deja being ill was his fault. Guilt sat like a knot between his shoulders and a weight on his head. He should have made sure she didn’t follow him. He should have spoken with the authorities rather than barge into the facility once he had sniffed out the exact location of the secret entrance.

Images of the people he killed down there raced through his mind. He’d never done anything like that in his life.



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