Cutter (Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team Book 4) by Laramie Briscoe

Author:Laramie Briscoe [Briscoe, Laramie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Laramie Briscoe Books
Published: 2020-06-04T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Cutter

My eyes watch Tucker as he’s putting his things together. We don’t leave until tomorrow afternoon, but here he is. Already getting his stuff packed. After the day we’ve had, I can’t believe he’s not experiencing the same kind of adrenaline crash I am.

“You’re excited, huh?”

He smiles that stupid smile of dudes in love everywhere. “Yeah, I can’t wait to see Syn, feel her wrapped in my arms, lay in bed with her. I miss every single thing about her. Even the shit I didn’t think I would miss.”

I wonder if this is how it’s going to be for me, but obviously I’ll be the complete opposite. I’m not going home to the woman I love. I’m leaving the one I’m growing to know, thinking I can see a future with. It’s hard not to be excited for him, but it’s hitting me that tonight might be the last night Rowan and I ever see each other. We haven’t discussed what’s going to happen when the LSERT leaves.

I guess we both thought we had more time. Tonight it’s the one thing not on our side. I have to see her. It’s not even a want, it’s a need. A feeling deep in my bones, thudding against the wall of my chest, electricity running through my veins. If I don’t see her now, I don’t know what I’ll do with myself.

“I’ll be back.”

“Going to see her?”

“Yeah, don’t wait up.”

He chuckles. “You ain’t here tomorrow at two, I’m not waitin’ on you. You can figure out your own way back to Laurel Springs.”

“That’s fair.”

“More than,” he argues.

“Yeah, yeah.”

He throws something at me as I leave the room, but I duck in time for it to hit the door, instead of my head.

“Two o’clock, Cutter!”

“Got it.”

But I really don’t. It’s hard to reconcile him being so excited to leave and me being so reluctant to let go. It’s not at all what I had planned, and the epitome of everything I said I’d never be.

Going down to the truck we’ve been sharing since we got here, I get in, looking at the dashboard. There’s a picture of Karsyn, smiling up at Tucker like he’s her entire world. I’m man enough to admit I want it; I want every bit of what they have. Rowan’s picture on my dashboard? That’s right where it belongs.

The streets of Paradise Lost are closed this time of night. The only people out are the ones who desperately need something or the first responders. Seeing Sullivan at a stop light, I give him a wave.

He does the same back, and I wonder what he would think if he knew where I’m going, what I’m going to do? Would he be friendly or would he tell me to make sure I don’t hurt Rowan? One thing I’ve learned is I can’t live my life based on what other’s think of me. So I choose to ignore what he may think.

The drive is quicker than I remember it being, almost as if I show up two seconds after I got in the truck.

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