The Memory Box: Small Town Romance (Comfort Crossing Book 2) by Kay Correll

Author:Kay Correll [Correll, Kay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, man from the past, women's fiction, small town, secret baby
Publisher: Rose Quartz Press
Published: 2014-06-08T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Clay pulled into the parking space reserved for doctors near the emergency room entrance. The county ambulance sat next to the door, its lights flashing. He could see a flurry of activity through the doorway to the emergency entrance. “Come on. Let me find out what’s going on and we’ll figure out what to do.”

Jenny just nodded and slid out of the car. She hurried along beside him, not taking his offered hand. He was worried about her. She was abnormally pale, and her breathing was shallow, near the edge of a full blown anxiety attack, if he guessed correctly.

“It’s okay.” He hoped his low, controlled voice would soothe her and give her some measure of comfort. He was worried about Danielle, too. He never knew what stunt she was going to pull. He scrubbed his hand over his face.

Clay crossed over to the desk in the emergency room. He could sense, rather than feel, Jenny close at his side. “Dr. Miller.” Clay interrupted the blonde nurse at the desk. “I was paged for an emergency.”

“Miller?” The nurse looked at the computer screen. “We have a Danielle Miller in room three and—”

Clay didn’t even wait to hear the end of whatever the girl was saying. Sheer steely fear speared through him. He sped down the hallway towards room three, berating Jenny’s boy for once again dragging his daughter into danger. His heart pounded and he said all the prayers and bribes he could think of in the time it took to go the sixty feet or so.

“Danielle?” He pushed through the door and looked at his daughter sitting on the edge of the bed, covered with blood. His pulse drummed in his ears.

“Daddy.” Danielle burst into tears. Her hair was matted and she had blood on her bare legs. A nurse stood beside her bed.

“Are you okay?” Clay crossed the distance to the bed in two strides, quickly doing an assessment of his daughter. He didn’t know where all the blood was coming from. “Where are you hurt?” He turned to the nurse. “Where’s the doctor?”

He heard a gasp from across the room and turned to see Jenny standing in the doorway. He was momentarily torn between his daughter and Jenny. Jenny looked like she was going to faint dead away, and he couldn’t figure out where all the blood on his daughter was coming from.

“Daddy, she’s going to faint.”

Clay rushed over to Jenny and wrapped an arm around her. He motioned to the nurse to move and he half carried Jenny over to the bed beside Danielle.

“Jenns, sit tight. Put you head down between your knees.”

“Nathan.” Her voice was a whisper. “Where is Nathan?”

“Danielle, where are you hurt? Was Nathan with you? Where is he?” Clay fired off his questions in rapid succession.

His daughter began to sob. “I’m okay. I am. Nathan…”

“What? What about Nathan?” Jenny pushed up and tried to stand.

“Don’t move.” Clay commanded.

Sheriff Dawson appeared in the doorway. “They said you were here, Ms. Bouchard. I’m sorry.

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