The Heart of a Hero (Global Search and Rescue Book #2) by Warren Susan May

Author:Warren, Susan May [Warren, Susan May]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2020-06-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

T HERE SHE WENT, BEING A JERK AGAIN.

The door to the hallway closed behind her to Jake’s voice. “Aria—”

She didn’t look back. Couldn’t.

Because of course, the man had seen inside her soul. Again. “Because if you were to need anyone . . . then you’d be weak little Aria with the broken heart again . . .”

She stopped and braced her hand on the wall, waiting to hear Jake enter behind her.

No footsteps.

He hadn’t followed her.

Which was probably for the best because . . . well, he was right about the kiss too. It was Aria who kissed him, both times. Aria who wanted to be in Jake’s arms.

Aria who was falling for dangerous Jake Silver who rode a motorcycle and sailed on the wings of a cat and climbed mountains and probably skydived and did everything that both stole her breath and hummed in her heart.

He scared her. Lured her.

She looked over. He still hadn’t followed her.

Huh. She stood up. Walked to the doorway.

The stairwell was empty. And then she remembered their conversation before they fixed the gennie, as he called it. Fresh water. And grub.

She debated a moment, then headed down the stairs, not sure why, but aching at the words between them.

At the fact that she’d run away from him, again.

The lobby was dark, the water nearly to her waist as she waded through it. “Jake?”

She was standing near the information desk when she heard it. A shout, quick and sharp, muffled by the water and the walls, but loud enough that it jerked her around.

The coffee shop. Of course.

She pressed through the water. The door had been shoved open, the water holding it back, and now she stared into the darkened space. “Jake?”

No one.

But she did notice a tray of muffins on the counter. And a handful of bottled waters in the display case. She pushed through the water and headed toward the case. The front had been broken, jagged glass rendering the sliding door useless, so she worked her way around the counter to the back.

She nearly tripped on something solid, and put her hand out—

Touched a body.

She recoiled. Screamed, hard and fast.

Then a cold horror swept through her as she recognized, in the dim light, Jake. His black T-shirt, his cargo shorts—

“Jake!” What—? She hauled him up by the shoulders and pulled his face out of the water.

His eyes were closed, he wasn’t breathing.

“Help!” She dragged his body, with the help of the water, around the counter toward a solid wooden table in the center of the room, climbed up, and pulled him onto it.

“Help! Someone!”

But really, who else was there?

Kneeling on the bench beside him, she tilted his head back and swept his mouth. Clear.

She started compressions.

“C’mon, Jake! Don’t you dare die on me!”

Ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen—

“Listen, Jake. You were right, okay? I did kiss you because I wanted to. I really wanted to.” Twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine. “Please, Jake—”

She gave him two strong breaths.

She checked his carotid artery. It seemed something might be pumping, but he lay lifeless.

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