The Paramedic's Unexpected Hero by Alison Roberts

The Paramedic's Unexpected Hero by Alison Roberts

Author:Alison Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-12T17:42:02+00:00


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This was way more exciting than Ari had expected. Not only was it the first time he’d been in an ambulance under lights and sirens but they were heading into a situation that could be life-threatening for both a mother and baby. That they had the weather against them as well added another degree of difficulty and the fact that he was with Kelly, who’d been dispatched as the lead medic for this advanced back-up in an emergency, made it all the more thrilling.

He’d meant what he’d said about her being able to handle anything but he could sense that she was nervous and he was going to give her whatever assistance he could. And maybe it was just a side effect of so much adrenaline in his system but Ari had the feeling that the two of them could make a perfect team. That, together, they could both achieve way more than if either of them was working alone.

Twenty minutes later, when they turned down a side road, having cleared one of London’s outer suburbs and arrived on the scene of this emergency, it was Ari’s turn to feel a beat of nervousness. He’d never had to deal with anything like this in his life. A police car was blocking the road that led to a narrow bridge. An ambulance was parked just beyond that but its crew was simply standing beside their vehicle. The beacons of both emergency vehicles flashed brightly against the driving rain and were reflected in the tumbling water of the swollen stream.

The far bank had collapsed, presumably due to the pressure of water combined with already saturated ground, and a car had come off the road and was tilted down at the bottom of the bank and seemed to be wedged on the driver’s side amongst low-lying branches of a weeping willow. The water was flowing swiftly around the front tyres of the car and Ari could see a police officer on the bridge.

‘Stay here, Bruce,’ Kelly instructed their driver. ‘Keep the engine running and the heat up as high as you can. We’ll go and find out what’s happening here.’ She caught Ari’s gaze as she handed him a heavy-duty torch. ‘Ready?’

Ari took the torch, having slipped his arms into the straps of the portable kit. ‘Ready,’ he confirmed.

And he was. Any nervousness evaporated at that instant, replaced by adrenaline and backed up by catching some of that determination he could see in Kelly’s eyes.

It was noisier than Ari might have expected. The rain and wind and the rushing water of the stream was a background to the sound of radios crackling, voices shouting, the faint sound of a siren in the distance, which could be more emergency vehicles coming their way and...more disturbingly, a cry that sounded like that of a terrified woman. He was right beside Kelly as they went past the police car blocking the road and got to the ambulance.

‘We’ve been told not to go any further yet.



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