Autumn Chill in Utah Springs by Thayne RaeAnne

Author:Thayne, RaeAnne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

Cale had learned early in his time with the FBI—long before then, really, during his tense, miserable childhood—how to bury his emotions deep down, so far down he sometimes forgot they were there.

He couldn’t do that on this case, no matter how hard he tried. As he carried the back end of the litter holding Cameron Vance out, a storm of emotions seemed to pour through him, and he didn’t know quite how to sort them out.

There was definite relief they had found the boy, gratitude they had been in the right place at the right time to rescue him just before the chamber collapsed.

Coupled with that relief was a deep fear for the boy’s health since Cameron still hadn’t regained consciousness—though he seemed to have stopped convulsing and his breathing was stable.

Those were enough to contend with. But somehow finding Cameron seemed to have weathered away the flimsy barrier he had constructed around his psyche to keep what had happened two weeks earlier from consuming him. The two events had somehow come to mesh in his mind and he found himself reliving in gruesome detail those horrible moments after shooting Andy Decker, when he had stumbled into that cabin and found the girls.

He tried to block those images out, the long moments of trying to resuscitate the girls, but they seemed to come faster and faster.

The only way he could keep it together was to focus on the job at hand, on the tricky process of moving one boot in front of the other through the dark, uneven terrain and keeping the litter stabilized as they maneuvered through the labyrinth.

“One more left turn in about twenty feet, and then the entrance should be straight ahead,” the rescuer in the lead said.

“You sure you don’t want me to take over?” Lucero asked Cale.

“I’ve got it,” he said. “You just keep doing your medic thing.”

He had to see this through to the end. Cameron had come to mean far more to him than a case and he wanted to be there when the boy emerged from the hole into the sunlight, even if he was unconscious and didn’t know the difference.

“How’s he doing?” one of the other rescuers asked Lucero.

“The Diastat appears to have stopped the seizure. At this point, I think his unresponsive state is just postictal.”

“What does that mean?” the man asked.

“After a big seizure, the brain sometimes decides to take a little holiday to recover for a while,” Lucero explained as they moved slowly toward the light.

“A patient can fall into what appears to be a deep sleep and be hard to rouse. Not really unconscious, but close to it,” he went on. “I would say the seizure on top of everything else the kid has been through in the last thirty-six hours was just too much for him and he’s shut down on us for a while. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be trapped in this darkness for a day and a half.

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