All That Glisters by C.J. Fallowfield

Author:C.J. Fallowfield [Fallowfield, C.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C.J. Fallowfield
Published: 2016-05-28T23:00:00+00:00

Coco

‘Stay with me, Hunter,’ I ordered, as I tugged the shirt from his trousers and undid the last few buttons, revealing his gorgeously toned body. I didn’t have time to enjoy it, though. My hands were shaking, my heart was racing, and my stomach was turning over and over. People often described this sensation as butterflies, but these weren’t butterflies. It was more like an explosion of brightly coloured fireworks going off inside me. He could have stopped all of this by coming straight down here and knocking everyone out within minutes, including me. But instead he’d risked everything to come and protect me first. I wasn’t sure he’d even realised what he’d done or what it said about his feelings for me. He kept telling me he didn’t have feelings, that he wasn’t the kind of guy to care, but he did. Everything he’d just done for me told me that he’d fallen for me, just like I’d fallen for him. What I didn’t understand was why he was fighting it. ‘I need you to stand up so I can remove your shirt.’

‘Anything … to get me … naked.’ He managed a half-smile as he tried to take some deep breaths, then struggled to get up and stumbled against me. I wasn’t strong enough to stop him from sliding to the floor, along with my heart. There was no way I was losing him now.

‘Help me, I need to sit you up against the wall,’ I urged, using all of my strength to drag him half-upright. I stood behind him and slipped my arms under his shoulders, pulling him to where there was a bare section of steel to prop him up against, but it was like all of his strength had left his body, like he’d used it all in getting us to this point and now he was running on fumes. ‘Hunter,’ I cried as his eyes started to close. ‘Don’t make me slap you awake.’

There was so much blood that I felt sick. I managed to prop him up, then ran back to the table and grabbed the tie and first aid kit. I wasn’t a bloody nurse, I had no idea what I was doing really. Cuts on the head and grazed knuckles I could handle, but bullet wounds? All I knew from watching TV and films was to stop the blood flow above the wound to slow down the rate it left the body, and minimize the risk of infection. I managed to yank his blood-soaked shirt sleeve down over his hand and ran my fingers through the sticky red life force coating his skin, trying to find where it was coming from. He grunted in pain as I felt what seemed to be the wound, and I decided the tie was step one, then I needed to clean and dress it before I looked at that nasty cut on his cheek.

‘Coco,’ he groaned, as I started pulling his blue tie, which matched his beautiful eyes, around his upper bicep.

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