Cut and Run (Phoenix Code 1 & 2) by Lara Adrian & Tina Folsom

Author:Lara Adrian & Tina Folsom [Adrian, Lara & Folsom, Tina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: In Media Res Publishing LLC
Published: 2014-11-17T05:00:00+00:00

5

Around her body, Phoebe felt the comforting arms of the stranger who’d rescued her. She could finally breathe again. The anxiety and mortal fear that had gripped her only moments earlier was seeping from her. For certain, she’d thought her final hour had arrived. The train had been so close, and when her clothes had caught somewhere she’d seen her life flash before her eyes. At that moment she’d realized she hadn’t really lived yet. Nor had she loved.

“I’ve got you,” the stranger now murmured once more. His deep, melodic voice soothed her and made her tense muscles relax while her body suddenly stirred with awareness. She was pressing herself against a strange man who was practically straddling her. The intimacy of this position didn’t escape her.

Nor him, apparently, because he now peeled himself from her embrace and started to rise, lending her a hand to get up. “Are you all right?”

She stole glances at his face. His hair was dark, almost black, and a little longer than most guys wore their hair these days, but it appeared well-groomed, just like its owner. His green eyes were framed by long dark lashes and strong eyebrows. He was clean-shaven, and his lips were full and oddly tempting.

“Miss?”

She tore her gaze from his mouth, embarrassed that he’d caught her staring at him. “I’m fine. I’m all right,” she answered quickly. Her gaze drifted past him to where the children were gathered beyond the crossing gates. “The kids.” She had to make sure all of them were unhurt.

Her feet already carried her toward them, while her eyes scanned the area. An ambulance screeched to a halt and two paramedics jumped out, running toward the scene. A block away she saw lights flashing, accompanied by police sirens. The police car reached the railroad crossing at the same time Phoebe reached the kids.

“Miss Chadwick, Miss Chadwick,” some of them wailed.

“Is everybody okay?” She tried to look at all the kids individually, but they kept moving around in the huddle, anxiety rolling off them. “Is anybody hurt?”

She heard several kids crying.

“Just a few scrapes,” the voice of her rescuer assured her from behind. “Your pupils all got out safely.”

Phoebe turned her head halfway, but before she could thank him for his reassurance the paramedics had reached the group of kids and suddenly everybody was talking over each other.

The female paramedic caught her eye. “Ma’am, did everybody get out?” She motioned to the remnants of the school bus, which were strewn about the railroad crossing. Pieces of it were caught underneath the train’s wheels. The train had long stopped. The locomotive now stood several hundred yards past the crossing.

“Everybody got out.”

“Are you hurt?”

Automatically, Phoebe shook her head, but when she lifted her arm to point at the kids, she felt a stinging pain in her back, where her shirt had caught on a glass shard. “I’m fine. Check the kids first.”

“You’re bleeding.”

The words came from her rescuer and sounded like an admonishment.

“It’s nothing. Just a scratch.” She turned back to him just in time to catch him shaking his head, a soft smirk curving his lips.

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