Love Inspired Suspense April 2014 Bundle: Top Secret Identity\Wrongly Accused\Perilous Waters\Lancaster County Target by Sharon Dunn

Author:Sharon Dunn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

THREE

“What’s wrong with her?” Cass screamed.

Sam eased Jen gently to the elevator floor so he could check her airway, breathing and circulation. The ABCs of his first responder course spiraled through his mind like a CD on replay. “Jake, help me.” He was the firefighter. He knew what to do. Jake knelt beside him, Tommy clinging to his neck.

The elevator doors opened.

“Gran—” Tommy squealed and lunged for his grandparents, who were standing at the door waiting to board.

Sam’s mom quickly overcame her surprise at the sight of the slumped woman and wrapped Tommy in her arms.

“We’ve got to get this woman to sick bay,” Jake said. “We’ll meet you at the buffet when we can or back at the room.”

“What deck is sick bay?” Sam asked the ship employee standing in front of the elevator panel.

“Oh, uh, Deck Five, Plaza,” he said in a thick Eastern European accent.

“Well, hit it, will you?”

The man did as he was told, but the elevator stopped at the next deck down. “Excuse me. I get off here.”

Cass lunged at the control panel and slapped the five again. “Is she going to be okay?”

“Her respiration is good. Pulse is rapid,” Jake said. “Does she have any medical conditions or allergies?”

“No, not that I know of.”

The elevator doors opened on the fifth floor and Sam swept Jen into his arms. She was impossibly light, as if a strong nor’easter could sweep her off the deck. His chest crunched at the unwelcome image.

“Which way to sick bay?” he asked the startled passengers waiting to board the elevator.

“Deck Four—Gala, one down—turn left,” a woman spoke up.

Cass slapped the 4 button. “How could a ship employee not know where sick bay is? He told us five.”

A few seconds later the doors pulled open again, and Sam charged left with Jen in his arms, Cassandra and Jake following.

A middle-aged woman in green scrubs directed him to lay her down on a bed, then she immediately checked Jen’s vitals as they relayed what they knew.

The nurse pulled on reading glasses and jotted down Jen’s blood pressure reading. “What has she had to eat or drink in the past three hours?”

Cassandra perched on a chair beside the bed and clutched Jen’s hand. “Nothing that I know of.” Black tears streamed down her cheeks. “We were on our way to supper.”

“She had a glass of something a bit ago,” Sam interjected. “I didn’t see what.”

The nurse eyed him suspiciously as she felt Jen’s glands. Not that he blamed her. He was kicking himself for not intervening when he saw that waiter press a drink on Jen that she didn’t seem to want.

The nurse’s expression changed. She swept back Jen’s hair and pulled off the seasickness patch. “Not sure if this is a contributing factor to her blacking out. But we’ve seen a number of negative reactions to these.”

Cass gasped. “Is she going to be okay?”

The nurse patted Cass’s shoulder. “Her respiration is a bit slow, but her vitals are good. We’ll

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