Lucky by Sharon Sala

Author:Sharon Sala [Sharon Sala]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9780061747144
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

10

The room was dark, with no other light but the beeping monitors that were connected to Nick. Lucky sat at his bedside, her eyes wide and glazed with horror, living through a replay of the last few hours that kept running over and over within her mind. She stared without wavering at his face, ignoring the tubes and needles poking into his lifeless body, because to acknowledge they were there was to admit the tenuous hold Nick had on life.

And while she watched the face of the man who’d saved her life, she wondered why it had mattered so much to withhold from him the little she had to give.

“Please, Nick…be well. I promise you it will be different.”

But the only one who heard was the nurse hovering on the other side of his bed, quietly checking his condition and making notes on his chart, while Lucky covered his fingers with the palm of her hand, needing the contact of his flesh to assure herself that he still lived.

Lucky kept telling herself that this wasn’t real. That what had happened a few hours ago was nothing more than a bad dream from which she would wake just as soon as the alarm went off.

But when an alarm did sound, it wasn’t a call to awaken. What was happening within Nick’s room was all too real. She jerked in reflex to the noise, then jumped to her feet as the line on the monitor registering Nick’s pulse went flat.

“Oh, God! Oh, no!” she said, as the nurse dropped her charts and frantically started searching for his pulse.

Before Lucky could think to move, a bevy of people in uniform came into the room pushing carts and machines. University Medical Center was on the job.

“You’ll have to wait outside,” someone said, and all but pushed Lucky from the room. Seconds later, doctors rushed past her. She watched as the door swung shut behind them, leaving her alone outside in the hall.

“No, Nick, No! Fight, damn you, fight!” Then her voice gave out and her legs went weak. She leaned her head against the wall and covered her face, her last plea little more than a whisper. “Please don’t die! If you do, you’ll never know that you were winning the game between us.”

Her cry echoed down the hall. Manny heard it as he got out of the elevator. Fear spiked the adrenaline racing through his body as he ran toward the sound of her voice. When he touched her shoulder, she spun around, and he saw that all the life had gone out of her eyes. Seconds later she collapsed in his arms.

As fate would have it, Paul Chenault’s first glimpse of the woman who’d stolen Nick’s heart was in the arms of another man. Although he knew of her existence, their first meeting was not as he’d hoped or planned. Her beauty was as striking as Nick had alluded to, but he wasn’t prepared for the sight of his son’s blood on her dress, or the way she was clutching Manny.

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