Better With You by Ellen Joy

Author:Ellen Joy
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: horses, farm, small town romance, sweet romance, clean romance, dogs, contemporary romance
Publisher: Ellen Joy
Published: 2019-08-13T04:00:00+00:00

ELIZABETH HADN’T EVEN noticed her phone ringing until Adam asked if it was hers. Fascinated by his stories of growing up in Cambridge, she begrudgingly pulled it out of her purse and didn’t recognize the number. “Dr. Williams.”

“Good evening, Elizabeth. It’s Alex Martinez,” the officer said. “Marine Patrol just found a seal pup tangled in some fish netting up at Perkin’s Beach. We’re hoping you could come over and check it out.”

“What about the Marine Mammal Rescue over in Portland?” she asked. She usually didn’t handle this kind of thing.

“They’re on their way, but it got pretty tangled up,” Officer Martinez explained, “and now I’m worried it’s having a hard time breathing.”

“Make sure no one tries to touch it or put any water on it. It’ll stress out the animal.” Elizabeth’s heart dropped as she looked at Adam watching her. She didn’t want the night to end, but she also didn’t want a distressed seal to hurt itself. “I’ll be right there.”

As she hung up, she saw Lucy laughing in the back yard, and suddenly she had a thought. “Do you think Lucy would like to help save a seal?”

“Are you serious?” his eyebrows lifted. “She’d love that.”

And he was right. Lucy jumped up and down enthusiastically as the three rushed out of her uncles’ house and headed down to Perkin’s Beach. She saw Officer Martinez’s truck out on the sand, and she pulled up next to him, grabbing her medical bag from the back seat.

“You guys should stand by the truck,” she said. “We don’t want to cause more stress with too many people, but you’ll get a good enough view of what’s happening,”

She jogged off to the seal, leaving Adam and Lucy standing back out of the way.

Officer Martinez and Marine Patrol Officer Brewer knelt next to a seal pup unresponsive on the sand. Its neck had cuts around it. When she got close, she could hear its labored breathing.

When she knelt down, she held a towel and put on a pair of gloves. The baby seal was no older than couple months. “Hello, buddy. You got yourself quite tangled up, didn’t you?”

This was when fishing broke her heart. The netting wrapped around the seal’s body most likely would’ve killed it, if someone hadn’t found it. And the netting coming off wasn’t an accident. It was a lazy fisherman not checking his equipment. The seal breathed heavily and struggled to get air. They were right. It would be in trouble soon. As Elizabeth got closer to the animal, it didn’t fight or try to bite her as she checked its vitals.

“We can bring this guy to my clinic if marine rescue doesn’t show.”

The two men nodded in agreement as Elizabeth took control of the situation. She grabbed the towel from her bag and placed it on top of the seal to use as a restraint. The motion made the seal come alive, but it froze, staring at them.

“He looks like he knows we’re helping him,” Officer Martinez said, kneeling next to her, holding onto the seal.

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