Falling for the Billionaire's Daughter (Sutton Billionaires Book 6) by Lori Ryan

Author:Lori Ryan [Ryan, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-19T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Joy hadn’t really thought about how much fun the gold mining tour would be for her when she recommended it. She’d heard it was a lot of fun for families and it wasn’t like these people were her family. Or even her friends.

That didn’t matter though when the kids all started pushing gold pans into her hands and telling her to “shake the gold out.”

It didn’t take much more than a sliver of gold or the dark red of the garnet to get them excited. And pretty soon, they were calling any remotely shiny pebble a diamond and asking to put it into their collection tube. They had cracked her up with that.

She left the group at the water’s edge to go back to the parking area to use the bathroom when she saw it and her blood felt like ice in a single beat.

She heard the shouting at the same time.

“Where is Nicholas?” “Where is he?”

The young boy was running flat out right for the parking lot.

She ran toward him, knowing she was probably about to scare the boy half to death, but not knowing if one of his parents was around or not. She knew Jill and Andrew had his twin brother and an infant to keep their eyes on so maybe he’d slipped away.

When she saw a car backing out of a spot, she didn’t hesitate. She kicked it into high gear and ran full on at the boy.

She was probably too rough, but she just grabbed for him and kept moving, trying to get out of the path of the car. The car slammed to a stop, the driver seemingly having seen the movement of her rushing across its back end.

She tripped then and twisted in the air, one hand going to cover the screaming boy’s head as she tucked him against her body and fell onto her back on the gravel.

It hurt. A lot.

It also knocked the wind completely from her lungs and she couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t seem to move her frozen lungs.

Then there were noises around her and someone was taking the boy from her and soothing him. She could hear all the “oh my Gods,” and “thank God she saw hims” and there were people talking to her, but the muscles of her chest were paralyzed.

“Breathe out Joy.” It was Kaeden and he was rubbing his hands down her arms and talking to her through all the noise around them, his voice steady and calm in the din. “I know you want to breathe in. Your body thinks it needs to breathe in to fix this, but you need to push the air out to kickstart your lungs.”

She did what he said even though she didn’t think she had any air in her lungs to push out.

Her breathing started up as soon as she did and she gulped air in, feeling lightheaded. And sore.

“Better?” he asked.

“Yes.” She moved a hand to the back of her head. She was going to have a bump for sure.

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