Saxon's Savior (Protect and Serve #3) - Pandora Pine Page 0,79

from the car as I approached. “He’s stable with minor cuts from flying glass. He’s a man of size and is too big to crawl out through the window or hoist himself into the passenger seat to get out of the car. He isn’t pinned, just stuck. The woman in the scrubs is the driver of the car who hit him. Take her. She looks familiar.” Saxon shook his head and hurried toward Ozzy who was readying the Jaws of Life.

The nurse was familiar. She was one of the people who’d treated Saxon after his concussion that first day on the job. “Karen, what happened?” I took her gently by the elbow and led her back to the ambulance and inside, where it was dry.

“Dallas, thank God it’s you.” She grasped her shaking hands together and took a deep breath. “I was driving to the hospital for my shift. The light turned green before I got to it. I pulled out into the intersection and all of a sudden there’s this car. I hit him.” Karen’s green eyes widened in shock and growing alarm. “Oh, Jesus Christ, Dallas, I hit that man.”

“Was the light still green?” I wrapped the blood pressure cuff around her arm and took a delicate sniff. I didn’t smell any booze on her breath. Not that I expected to, but it needed to go into my report.

“A transformer went down on the opposite side of Market. I was looking to the left at the sparks, and the car was coming from the right. I would swear the light was still green.”

I believed Karen, but the traffic cams would tell the tale, if they’d still been operational before the power went out. People drove like assholes in bad weather. He could have been in a hurry to get somewhere, or one of those dick bags who didn’t think traffic laws applied to him. I was about to perform concussion protocol when I heard the Jaws roar to life. The driver of the other car would be free in a matter of minutes. Ozzy was an expert.

“Do you want to be transported to the hospital?” I wasn’t seeing any indications that Karen needed medical intervention, but being transported was her call.

“I need to get there for my shift, but I don’t want to take the ambulance out of service just to get me there.” She shook her head. “I feel fine, just experiencing leftover adrenaline from the crash.”

“In you go, Mr. Vaughn.” Saxon helped the forty-something heavy-set man into the back of the ambulance.

“What’s she doing here? She’s the one who hit me!” Vaughn’s soaked face was beet red. I couldn’t tell if it was from the crash, being angry at Karen, or the exertion of walking from his wrecked car to the ambulance.

“Ride up front with me, Karen. Dallas can handle Mr. Vaughn.” Saxon offered a hand to Karen to help her down. Saxon rolled his eyes at me before closing the doors.

“Do you know what day it is, Mr. Vaughn?”

“Of course I know what day it is. It’s…you know. The day after something.” He wore a perplexed look.

“Let’s try something a little easier. What month is this?”

Vaughn shot me a dirty look. “The one with the pumpkins.”

I wasn’t a doctor, but he had a concussion. I pulled out the blood pressure cuff and wrapped it around his large arm. “What happened out there today?” I asked casually, not wanting him to feel like I was interrogating him.

“I was out of Lucky Charms. No one was on the road, so I gunned it, just like Vin Diesel.”

“You ran the red light because you were acting out a movie fantasy, during a hurricane?” Jesus H. Christ. What a reckless jerk. All because he was out of cereal and had a thing for Vin Diesel. I had a thing for him too, with that sexy bald head, but I wasn’t going to put anyone’s life at risk.

“Stupid woman…” Vaughn muttered under his breath.

“She’s an ER nurse at the hospital we’re taking you to. On her way to work a double shift, and here you are, acting like a dumbass.” I never lost my temper with patients, but this guy was punching all the wrong buttons.

“Aren’t you supposed to be on my side? I’m the one who’s hurt.” Vaughn sneered at me.

“It’s my job to provide you the best care possible until we arrive at the hospital.” With that, I shoved the thermometer in his mouth. I had so much