Perfect Risk (Mason Creek #1) - C.A. Harms Page 0,71
could feel myself fading in and out. “Looks like it just one inside,” I tried to call out, but even breathing hurt.
“Sadie!” It was coming from what felt like miles away but I could hear my name being called out. Voices all around me, people talking, the sounds of metal against metal, small fragment of glass falling from somewhere and hitting my lap and even the side of my face.
“Sadie!” Again I heard my name and this time it was closer.
So much activity around me but I couldn’t focus for more than a few seconds before fading out again.
Then I felt hands on me.
“Give me the brace.” It was Wyatt, his voice sounded hoarse and panicked.
“I’m okay.”
“Shh, hold still, babe.” Then something wrapped around my neck and the sound of Velcro. “I’ve got you.” And I knew he did.
I was slowly removed from the car, strong hands holding me, and not just Wyatt’s.
Being carried and then lowered to a firm surface before strapped in securely. “Are you coming with?”
“Yes.” I tried to open my eyes when I heard Wyatt again.
“I’ve got your truck,” I wasn’t sure who it was but Wyatt agreed and then I’m being lifted and the sounds of doors closing, before I again felt a hand touch my face. I didn’t have to look to know it was Wyatt, I’d know his touch anywhere.
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Wyatt
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I sat at the side of Sadie’s hospital bed, my hand resting on her thigh. Staring up at her I remembered what I felt when I pulled up and found her car smashed and flipped up on its side. Pure panic, my body moved before I had time to think and I practically rolled down the large deep ditch where her car had landed.
We’d been here for hours, they’d run testes and took her downstairs for several scans that the results have not yet come back for. Or at least no one has come in to tell us what the hell is going on.
All I do know is I am sitting in a room with Sadie’s parents on one side and Anna and Beau sitting a few feet behind me and we are all silent. Staring at the woman I love waiting for her to wake up and say something, anything.
“I’m fine.” Those were the last words I’d heard but the fact was none of us knew if that was true.
“Wyatt?” I looked up at the sound of my name just as my mother walked into Sadie’s room with Will close behind. I knew there were several others waiting outside int eh waiting room but them being here, it did something to me. Tears clouded my vision and I hung my head, resting it on the side of the bed. Feeling Sadie’s leg against me I my entire body began to shake as it all hit me.
I could have lost her.
Someone rubbed my back, my brother knelt at my side and when I turned to face him I saw a different side of him. In this situation he was the strong one, he was the one choosing to hold me up and a pride I’d never felt before took over. “She’ll be okay,” he assured me, patting my knee, “okay.”
“Hello everyone.” I sat up tall and looked passed Will to see a doctor and a nurse standing in the open doorway. Looking around the room and everyone that waited, obviously confused at who to address. “I’m Dr. Benson.”
Walking into the room a little more, Burt stood and held out his hand. “I’m Mr. Micheal and this is my wife.” Sadie’s mom was confined to her wheelchair so he offered her a nod and then again looked around at everyone else.
“Everyone in here is family,” Burt surprised us all and again emotions threatened to take over my control.
“Then I assume it’s okay to discuss Sadie’s condition freely?”
“Yes,” he said, looking at me and holding my gaze.
“Sadie’s a very lucky girl, the outcome could have been so much worse.” He tapped on the tablet in his hands, focusing on it as he spoke. “Her left arm is broken, she has twenty-two stitches in her shoulder and eleven on the side of her head, most likely from the windshield and the side window that broke as the car rolled.”
I closed my eyes, keeping my hand on her, needing to feel her against me.
“She has a concussion, and we’ve given her something light to help with the pain and to help her rest comfortably.”
“Something light?”