Renner (In the Company of Snipers Book 19) by Irish Winters

Author:Irish Winters [Winters, Irish]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Windy Days Press
Published: 2019-09-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Alex wouldn’t wake up. Kelsey held her palm to his chest. He was barely breathing. Her worst fears were coming true. Frightened now, she placed a quick 911 call, then rang McKenna, all while she planted Lexie at the kitchen table in front of a bowl of cold cereal. With her cell phone tucked into her neck, Kelsey listened to McKenna’s voice mail, then left a panicked, “I need you. Hurry! This is Kelsey. Something’s happened and Alex isn’t breathing right or enough. He won’t wake up. I don’t know what to do.”

“I hewped Daddy,” Lexie mumbled proudly around a mouthful of something fruity and probably loaded with too much sugar.

“That’s nice. You’re such a big girl,” Kelsey answered, her mind on Alex and her heart pumping furiously even as she forced a calm demeanor for her daughter’s sake. “Stay here and eat. I’ll be right back, okay, sweetie?”

“Ah huh. I a big girl cuz I hewped Daddy.” She’d been saying that a lot since she’d helped Alex at Arlington. Lexie adored her father, and no, just no! This couldn’t be happening. It was too soon! He was still young and virile and… “No!” Kelsey growled at the heavens as she flew back to his side. “No! I refuse to let him go. Please don’t take him from us.”

Alex lay silent on his back on his side of their bed, still in a ratty old USMC t-shirt and gym shorts, his usual pajamas, one hand on his chest. Still not drawing in air like he should. He looked peaceful enough, but the dying were just as peaceful and quiet.

“God, Alex, not you, too,” she cried as she pressed her ear to his chest, tears flooding her vision. He didn’t seem to be in any pain or distress. He just wasn’t breathing right. Too slow. So shallow. She could barely hear him. “I need you, baby. Please! Don’t die!”

She couldn’t beg hard enough. Her tears fell like rain. When she’d come home last night, Alex had already been asleep. But he’d been sick, so she hadn’t worried. He was a stubborn man, and he always refused to rest when he should. It was bound to catch up with him.

Diligently, she’d checked his forehead for a fever, put Lexie into her own bed, then snuggled into bed with Alex, spooning like they always did. He’d grumbled something about Renner, but then he wrapped an arm around her, again, like he always did. Kelsey told him she loved him, that they needed to talk, and they both fell asleep.

But when her alarm rang this morning and Alex was still in bed…

When he didn’t answer when she asked him if he was going in late…

When she couldn’t wake him…

She ran her fingers over his hard head and through his hair, measuring the loss staring her in the face against their too few years together. They needed more time. More lovemaking. More everything!

It seemed like forever before her security app pinged a notification. Thank God! McKenna was here.

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