Wildfire on the Skagit (Firehawks Book 9) by M. L. Buchman

Author:M. L. Buchman [Buchman, M. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-06-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Once the girls had a safety introduction by Denise the Firehawk mechanic and had their helicopter ride with Emily and Jeannie around the flanks of Mt. Hood, they climbed aboard their buses and were gone.

Watching twenty teenage girls group-hugging Evan had been a crackup.

Watching the gentle hug he’d given to Mallory had almost ripped out Krista’s heart. Or perhaps it had healed it. She didn’t even know anymore.

The camp felt unexpectedly quiet without them.

Krista went in search of Evan. Not in the showers, not in his bunk, not in the equipment sheds. She raided Betsy’s kitchen for a couple of roast beef sandwiches and sodas, grabbed a pair of sleeping bags and headed out across the gravel parking lot.

She found him in the only logical place, sitting on “their” fallen Doug fir well into the woods, staring at the running stream.

Once again, she sat on the log close beside him.

She handed him a sandwich and a soda, “Thought we should get our calories first this time.”

“Thanks.” No smile, no tease, and no kiss. But if she was reading him right, also no dark-and-foul-mood either. He bit down on the sandwich and watched the forest.

“You were amazing with the girls, especially Mallory, but amazing with all of them.” She wanted to ask what had happened between him and Mallory. What had they spoken of in that mere minute or two of privacy that had so changed the girl? Krista hadn’t even seen the pain in her until Evan had somehow brushed it aside. But now it was as if something had been washed away and the true woman shone through.

“I’ll be back for next season’s tryouts,” Mallory had informed her when they hugged goodbye. Krista just might have to talk to Akbar about considering letting a true rookie onto the team, for she had no question about Mallory’s determination. She’d shifted from being driven away to being driven ahead. It was the same pain, just somehow…converted.

And most of all had been the look in her eye and the tone in her voice. Mallory had what it took to be a smokie.

Even trying to think about it made Krista’s head hurt. She didn’t have a lot of experience with those kinds of things. Though she suspected that Evan did and that’s why his bouts of darkness had been so confusing to her.

Krista had a past that was both spectacularly good with her father and a major pain in the ass with school and men in general. Evan and Mallory had made trips to some other land she didn’t begin to understand.

“Are you going to be explaining yourself anytime soon?” she asked before biting into her own tasteless sandwich.

“Huh?”

“Huh, he says. Yeah, that’s a way to get between this girl’s legs.”

“Say what?” Finally, he turned to look at her. Then he looked down at his half eaten sandwich and back at her. “Wow! Why am I thinking I just missed something really important?”

“Because you may be dense, but you aren’t stupid, Rook.

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