The Way of the Brave (Global Search and Rescue Book #1) by Warren Susan May

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

CHAPTER NINE

J ENNY WAS BREAKING every promise to herself by leaving Sasha on the mountain.

She might even be physically ill as she knelt beside her.

Sasha’s eyes were closed, her red hair splayed out on the wadding of her jacket. Her skin seemed nearly white, deathly, as Jenny ran her hand over her forehead.

“Sash. We’re going to get you help. Stay with us.”

A flicker of her eyes, and Jenny caught her breath as Sasha looked at her. “Jens. Tell Lucas—tell him, I’m sorry about the baby.”

Jenny froze, swallowed. Baby? But now wasn’t the time. “Okay. Yes. But you’ll see him real soon, I promise.” She leaned forward and brushed her lips against her forehead.

Then she looked up at Jake, seated next to Aria on her sleeping bag. He gave her a solemn nod.

“Ari—”

“We’ll do everything we can.” Aria was in worse shape than she’d let on, given the cry she’d emitted when Jake brought her into the tent. The man carried her as if she weighed nothing. Solidly built, bulky shoulders, with a hint of blond whiskers that scraped across his jaw. Jake reminded her of the SEAL guys she once knew.

So maybe Sash and Aria were in safe hands.

She grasped Aria’s hand, squeezed, and then climbed out of the tent.

Ham and Orion were waiting for her by her pack. They’d lightened the packs for the hike out, leaving half the food here. Hopefully, they’d get in radio contact with help when they reached Karstens Ridge.

Her gut didn’t like it, though. First, there was the clutter in the sky, a building of cumulus traffic—thick white clouds moving slowly over Mount Huntington. Then there was the wind, dusting snow off the creamy white ridge.

Karstens Ridge might be the most dangerous section of the journey—three thousand feet along a two-foot-wide path with gusting winds and a drop-off over a thousand feet on either side.

The beauty that fell before her, however, could nearly choke out the foreboding in her gut, the one that said this was going to go terribly wrong.

Orion reached for her biner and clipped her into a butterfly knot in the center of the line. “Ham will be behind you. I’ll be in front of you. And Jake has the other radio, so we’ll be in touch.”

She looked up at him, seeing herself reflected in his dark glasses, her image nearly unrecognizable in her face mask, hood, hat, glasses. She’d kitted up, too—carrying her webbing of ice screws, a descender, an extra cordelette. Jake had given her his snowshoes in case they ended up hiking through Muldrow Glacier. She’d shoved a couple pickets into the outside straps of her pack and refreshed her avalanche beacon, now inside her jacket pocket. Ham and Orion wore beacons also.

Orion checked her biners and made sure the rope ran through her chest harness. Ran a hand up her pack tether.

“Good kit,” he said and smiled.

She wanted this day to go right. No more accidents. No falls.

But she’d had that dream—no, nightmare —and whether it was

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