Adverse Possession (The Anna Albertini Files #3) - Rebecca Zanetti Page 0,33
wasn’t time to get out of the car. Fumbling, I grabbed my seatbelt and secured it, looking frantically in the rear-view mirror as Kelsey did the same.
Hopefully they’d stop.
I could see the brunette’s eyes widen. She must’ve pounded on the brakes because the truck hitched. It skidded loudly at the last second. Then her jaw tightened, and the truck sped up.
My instincts kicked in, and I grabbed the wheel but didn’t have time to hit the gas and somehow get out of the way. The vehicle hit my car with a loud crunch of metal against metal. My body smashed against the seatbelt and then back, my head hitting the headrest. My ears rang.
The impact pushed my car into the intersection. Horns blared as cars swerved to get out of the way. I tee-boned a compact blue car, spinning both it and my Fiat around in a circle. The last thing I saw was a blond man slump over his steering wheel in that car. Oh no. Was he dead?
“Kelsey?” I whispered weakly. My ears rang and my vision went dark from the outside in. Then I fell into unconsciousness.
Chapter 13
I woke up in an ambulance, my head aching and my vision fuzzy. Then I went in and out until finally awakening completely in a comfortable bed, hooked up to hospital monitors. Santa Clause stood next to me. “Santa?” I whispered.
Santa smiled and looked closer into my eyes as he set a tablet aside. “No. I’m Dr. Springfield.” He was in his mid-sixties with short white hair and a white beard. “You were in a car accident, young lady. I’m going to ask you some questions, and I need you to relax and answer them. What’s your name?”
I answered all of his questions while taking inventory of my body. Nothing was broken, but everything was sore. Even my right knee protested. What had I hit with my knee? I couldn’t remember the accident after the truck hit us.
Finally, he finished making notes on the tablet. “You have a slight concussion but I’m not horribly worried about it. You also have bruising along your ribcage, but nothing is broken. We’ll keep you here for a couple of hours, but I think you’ll be able to go home tonight with some directions.” His smile really was Santa-like. “Is there anybody we can call for you?”
“Yeah.” I gave him Tessa’s number since she lived closest to the hospital. I’d rather deal with the rest of my family on my home turf and not in the hospital.
The doctor left just as Kelsey Walker rushed in, her eyes wild. “Anna? Are you all right?” She hurried to my bedside and grabbed my hand. A little bit of blood dotted her skirt.
I coughed. “Just a slight concussion and bruised ribs. How are you? Are you okay?”
A bandage covered the skin above her right eye and a few bruises stood out along her clavicle. “I’m fine and didn’t even need to ride in the ambulance. There’s a slight cut over my eye, but I didn’t need stitches. It was crazy. Tell me you’re okay.” Her eyes filled with tears. “You’ve been through so much. Do you remember what happened?”
I frowned and tried to remember everything. “We were rammed by a truck.” It didn’t make sense. “Why did they want to hurt us? Where are they now? Are they here in the hospital?” I tried to push the covers off me.
She pushed them right back and pressed a hand to my shoulder. “Stay still and relax. I don’t know where they are, and they’re definitely not here in the hospital. They drove off after hitting us, but I managed to get their license plate and gave it to the police officers. There were two women in the truck, and I described them the best I could.”
Man. Static filled my brain along with fog. “Are you sure you’re not injured?” I asked.
“Yes.” She looked at my face and then her shoulders relaxed. “I thought you were really hurt. At the scene, I tried to wake you up, but you were out cold. It was terrifying. Are you sure you’re all right?”
“Um, excuse me?” A blond man stood in the doorway with bruises across the right side of his face and his left arm in a sling. He was about six foot, slender, and maybe in his late twenties? His eyes were a dark brown, and right now they were tinged with pain.