Harlequin Love Inspired July 2016, Box Set 2 of 2 by Lois Richer

Author:Lois Richer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488022241
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Sunday morning, Drew pulled in at the clinic on his way to the farm. Getting out of his truck, he surveyed the grim scene with a frown. The feed barn was still standing, but that was about the only positive thing he could say about it. The firefighters had peeled back enormous sections of the metal roofing to access the interior and douse the flames from above, and the gaping holes in the walls had left them barely capable of supporting what was left of the structure.

A thin haze of smoke still hung in the air, and while the fire had been contained to the single barn, the walls and windows of the other buildings were smeared with black soot marks. Since it was closest to the storage space, the baby barn had taken the brunt of the heat and smoke, and he grimaced when he noted just how close the fire had come to the helpless animals inside.

Quite honestly, Drew thought morosely, the formerly peaceful clearing in the woods looked like a disaster zone. He couldn’t begin to calculate how long it would take them to get everything back to normal.

It wasn’t like him to be so negative, and he gladly headed down the well-used lane in search of something to lift his spirits. He found it in the stable nearest the house, and he gratefully walked toward the joyful sound.

“Aren’t you good boys?” Bekah’s voice reached him through the open sliding door, her laughter drawing him in a step at a time. “If you keep eating like this, you’ll be the biggest ones of the bunch.”

Drew paused outside the makeshift holding area, watching her bottle-feed two goats at once. She made it look easy, and he could hardly believe she hadn’t been doing this kind of job for years.

When she noticed him, her eyes lit up with unabashed delight. “There’s my hero. How are you doing?”

“Well enough, considering.” Glancing around, he registered the fact that all the morning chores she normally handled had already been done. “Did you ever go to sleep?”

“I crashed for a couple hours on the living room sofa after everyone left, but the animals are used to getting breakfast at seven, and I could hear them on the webcam. They’re better than an alarm clock.”

“No doubt.” Pleased to find that her harrowing adventure hadn’t done anything to dampen her spirits, he shook off his own dark mood and got practical. “What can I do to help?”

“Nothing for now. Later, there will be plenty to do inside the clinic.”

“Lotta smoke damage, huh?”

She groaned. “It’s everywhere. It’s going to take forever for us to scrub everything down well enough for the animals to go back in.”

No mention of her own living space, he noted with admiration. Most folks he knew would’ve complained about the fact that their apartment was in the same kind of shape as the other buildings. Bekah’s difficult background made her selfless streak all the more impressive.

Drew squinted up and saw nothing but blue sky.

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