Lone Star Redemption. Colleen Thompson
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Название: Lone Star Redemption
Автор: Colleen Thompson
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Короткие любовные романы
Серия: Mills & Boon Romantic Suspense
isbn: 9781472090508
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Shrugging back into his jacket, he tore the shirt along a side seam.
“Now!” she begged, peering all around the darkness. “Before he comes back to finish this.”
“Whoever shot you isn’t coming back,” Zach Rayford reassured her as he tore another strip from the shirt. “Not the way he lit out of here. Nearly crashed into me. Ran my truck right off the road.”
That must have been what happened to his chin, she thought, unable to believe how calm and in control he seemed. How focused on her welfare while he, too, was bleeding and in danger. “Did you see him? Did you see who did it?”
“I’m sorry, no. Nothing but a pair of headlights. Happened way too fast.” He squatted beside her, warning, “Sorry, but this is going to hurt.”
“No! Don’t touch it,” she begged, but he was already grasping her wrist and shining the flashlight at the hand with a bloody hole drilled through its center.
Drilled through—she was sure of it—by the same bullet that had first torn through Henry’s body.
Because of me, she thought, collapsing into sobs at the thought of how she’d verbally pushed at Hellfire before he’d pushed back, how she’d disobeyed Zach Rayford’s order to leave his ranch and ignored the sheriff’s warning to leave town.
“All my fault,” she wept. “It’s all my fault—poor Henry.”
“Shh,” he told her. “Hold still, Jessica. I need you to hold still for me right now so I can get this bandaged, so you can live. So you can live to figure out who would do this to your friend.”
Both firm and kind, his voice punched through her despair. Reached through to offer her the courage to draw another breath.
“So you can make who did this pay,” he said.
“So I can—make him pay.” She looked up into his face, her body going still as she repeated the words. Words that gave her purpose, even as the strength drained from her.
But the respite didn’t last long. As the rancher bound her injured hand, agony and anguish forged a pain so overwhelming, she cried out and fought to pull away from his grasp. Fought until the blackness rose up, offering the only real release from pain and guilt.
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