The SEAL's Christmas Baby by Katie Knight & Leslie North

Author:Katie Knight & Leslie North [Knight, Katie & North, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

Lila slowly blinked her eyes open and squinted into the too-bright light. Her head was pounding and her whole body felt like a mass of pain. Those constant beeps were driving her insane and something kept tightening on her right arm periodically, keeping her from returning to sleep.

She turned her head slightly the side, then moaned as the world went topsy-turvy and the dizziness made her stomach cramp. Jesus. At least she wasn’t cold anymore. Closing her eyes and swallowing hard against the bile rising in her throat, she focused on figuring out where exactly she was.

The biting wind was gone, as was the blue sky, so she wasn’t outside. She remembered being on the ski lift, watching the people on the slope below, then lying on the snow, then…nothing. It was disconcerting to not know what had happened to her, but there was one thing she would never forget.

“Parker?” She managed to force the word out despite the cotton-like dryness in her mouth. “Where’s my son?”

“Hey,” a soothing male voice said from beside her, followed by the comforting warmth of a hand on hers. “He’s right here, asleep in the chair. Don’t worry. I’ve done enough of that for the both of us.”

Preston. Her sore chest squeezed tighter with gratitude and affection. Carefully, she turned toward him, slowly so as not to trigger the vertigo again. “W-what h-happened?”

His grip tightened on her hand and he brought it to his lips, kissing the back before stroking her hair out of her face with the other. His dark eyes were full of relief and concern. “There was an accident on the ski lift. You fell about ten feet and landed hard on your back, sweetheart. You don’t remember?”

“I remember r-riding up. The sun was shining and the wind was cold.” Anxiety made her heart thud harder. She couldn’t remember falling. Why couldn’t she remember? “Did I hurt my head?”

“You have a mild concussion. That can affect memory sometimes.” The gentle touch of his fingers on her scalp felt heavenly. “Don’t push yourself at this point. It’ll come back to you when you’re ready.”

Lila nodded then frowned. “T-thirsty.”

“Here.” Preston let go of her hand then returned a moment later with a cup of water. He held the straw to her lips and she sucked down a few sips of liquid. “Bet that tastes good, huh?”

“Amazing,” she said, sinking back into her pillows. “Tell me more about how I fell.”

“They’re still looking into it. Interviewing witnesses, especially the guy who was riding with you,” Preston said. “Tom keeps texting me with updates and asking how you are.”

“Hmm.” At the mention of someone riding with her on the ski life, an image flashed into her head—there then gone. A dark figure, all in black, with mirrored shades. Her pulse stumbled as terror flooded her system, but then it vanished before she could make sense of it, like smoke in fog. She wanted to ask Preston more about the man in the lift, but then the door to the room creaked open and in walked a woman she assumed was her doctor.

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