Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Burning Skies (Kindle Worlds Novella) (Fire Protection Specialists Book 3) by Jen Talty

Author:Jen Talty [Talty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-03-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Routine surgery.

There was nothing routine about having to slice open a child and removing their appendix.

Jax paced in the waiting. It had been sixty-seven minutes since they took her into the operating room. They told him the surgery wouldn’t take longer than an hour as long as there were no complications.

The doors swished opened and Jax snapped his head toward the sound, but it wasn’t the doctor and it wasn’t Scarlet.

Where the fuck was she? Instinctively he reached in his back pocket, but he’d left his phone in the station house. Didn’t matter, if she cared she would have been minutes behind him. He took in a deep calming breath. She did have Rusty to deal with, but really, it had been two hours since he and Elle had arrived at the hospital.

“Mr. Stravos?” A man in scrubs entered the waiting area. “I’m Josh. I was the nurse in with Elle during her surgery.”

“She’s out? How is she?” His pulse beat so fast he thought for sure he’d drop dead of a heart attack right there. He blinked, trying to clear the sudden double vision.

“She’s fine.” Josh rested a firm hand on Jax’s shoulder. “No complications and we’re expecting to be able to send her home tomorrow.”

That seemed soon, but then again, Jax had already gotten cleared for a week off, so he’d have no problem taking care of his little girl. “Can I see her?”

“You sure can. She’s a still groggy and might fall asleep a lot over the next few hours.”

Jax willed his heart rate to settle down. He didn’t want Elle to see how shaken up he’d been. The stronger he appeared, the faster she’d heal. Well, that’s what he told himself.

“She did make one request of you though.”

“What’s that?”

“She asked me to tell you not to call her Buttercup.”

Jax shook his head. “I’ve been calling her that since the day she was born. Kind of a hard habit to break.”

“Take it from a father of three teenage daughters. Unless you’re handing them the keys to your car or a credit card, best to stick with their given name.”

Opening and closing his hands, Jax slowly rid himself of the tension that had all his muscles tied up in knots. “Do they ever stop rolling their eyes?”

“My oldest is seventeen and she’s the worst, but my favorite is the foot stomp, while yelling ‘Daddy, you never let me do anything. You’re the meanest.’ All followed by a hair flip, long sigh and a slammed door. Ten minutes later, she’s all, ‘Daddy, I love you, can I have twenty dollars?’” Josh shook his head laughing. “It never gets easier, it just gets different.”

“Not sure that makes me feel any better.”

Josh slapped him on the back as they turned the corner. “I’ve got all girls, and I can’t imagine life any differently. Oh, before I forget, Elle keeps asking for Scarlet. Is she somewhere in the hospital where I can track her down?”

“She’s at home. I’m hoping she’ll be here soon, though.

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