Working Fire by Bleeker Emily

Author:Bleeker, Emily
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542045728
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2017-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

Ellie looked at her phone again: 2:17 a.m. When she was on a twenty-four-hour shift, two a.m. was her least favorite hour. For some reason, it was at two that her eyelids would droop and her body would cry out for sleep. And if she ever dared to sit down during that predawn hour, there was no hope of staying awake.

But today she was on edge. More on edge than she’d ever been, even on the call when a man in Forestville tried to “aim” some fireworks over his girlfriend’s house as part of his proposal by holding them as he lit the fuse and nearly blew all of his fingers off. It was her job to pick up all the charred “bits” to put on ice for a surgeon.

That made her heart pound; this made her heart ache; and sitting in a dark car outside of her boyfriend’s apartment at two o’clock in the morning wasn’t Ellie’s idea of comfort. Collin was supposed to run in, grab clothes and toiletries, and be out in two minutes. But it had been nearly fifteen, and after texting five times in a row, she was getting frustrated.

If she wanted to get home, changed, and back to the hospital with a bag before the hospital became too active and she lost her nerve, Ellie couldn’t imagine being gone longer than an hour. If she’d known it would take this long, she would’ve just showered in Collin’s mildew-ridden little shower and used his Head & Shoulders 2-in-1 to get as much of herself clean as possible and tossed on a pair of his jeans. It didn’t really matter what she looked or smelled like right now. It just mattered that she was there for Amelia when she returned from her procedure . . . and that she found her way down to the basement before eight a.m.

As Ellie reviewed the pieces of the case, a dark place started to grow inside her gut. The man in the mask was dead—it seemed like Steve might have shot him. Self-defense was an easy explanation.

But then why was there this whole “armed and dangerous” warning about Caleb? And why was he leaving the scene of the crime covered in blood and holding a gun? Steve needed to wake up from his drug-induced slumber soon. She hoped this time he’d have more information.

Ellie looked at her phone again: 2:22 a.m. and still not a single response from Collin to her texts. It was entirely possible that he had fallen asleep. He was always running on full speed and fitting studying in between his rounds. Then, with the stress today, he must’ve crashed again. Ellie dropped her phone into the armrest on the Jeep door, thumping up against the E+C etched into the plastic. The lightweight door swung open easily, and Ellie’s knees creaked as she jumped down to the crumbling cement driveway.

The row of small rental apartments had been built sometime in the fifties, and it showed—crumbling red

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