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That hen Grace recalled why she hadn’t seen Paul today "Dao to his father’s birthday party in llA He left this "
"How about Jenson?"
Grace shook her head "Jenson’s still apprentice level" He ht panic under the kind of pressure at the station
"I’ll go - air is round experience" She frowned
"Jenson should be able to deal with anything that comes up here, but call Paul in llA and have hiet hold of Paul, call Zang at the San Rafael den or Shae at thein a truck and sent Cooper a ht
Declaration of Courtship Chapter 12
SHE WAS TWENTY minutes ahen he called on the car’s syste up alone?"
His protectiveness warh she could feel thened out "I’ll be safe under shelter before the storet to the station"
"You stay safe, too" She knew he’d be the first one out in the fury if anything happened "Have you got a satellite phone?" Proving the adage that trouble caone down forty e dead zone as far as norood neas that thanks to underground cabling, the den’s hardwired lines reo both do" Personnel orked regularly in isolated areas were issued them as a matter of course after a packwide mandate
"Take care, Grace I’ll be pissed off otherwise"
For some reason, that bad-tempered statement made her s up, and found the techs both outside, atte to coax a olf and her tiny pups out of a tree hollow that wouldn’t protect the force of the storm Aware the feo away and held out a hand It took ten ripped one of her pups in her teeth and gave her to Grace Grace cuddled the pup close and led the ripped the second pup by the scruff of its neck - into the station
"Could I borrow one of your sat phones?" she asked after they’d dried off and created a nest of blankets for the olves "My cell’s got no signal" She’d double-checked to be certain
Red hair in a halo around her face, Elizabeth glanced at Diego with a distinctly guilty expression "I forgot aniz - "
Loud swearing from her partner "I had it in my pocket, must’ve lost it while ere outside"
Since it was their sole o back out into the now-pitch-black night to look for it - only to be shoved back inside by the gale force wind that turned even the smallest object into a deadly projectile A heavy broken-off branch nearly took off Elizabeth’s head before Grace wrenched her out of the way
"Hell!" Shoving the door shut with their help, Diego bolted it, leaving the branch where it had crashed into the opposite wall "That’s it, we’re stuck here till the storht of the concern in Cooper’s voice and hoped he wouldn’t worry too much when he didn’t hear froet to work on the air" - she picked up the wolf pup clawing at her work boot, took it back to its exasperated mother - "or we’ll have to open a "
The other two laughed but it was strained - built into the side of a small hill, with only a doorway to reveal it was there, the control station had no s All three of thelitches, there was no way of knowing for certain how much breathable air was left in the bowels of the facility, two levels below this onethe area that housed the sophisticated computronics needed to run the hydro station
COOPER carried in the soldier who’d broken his leg when he slipped in the muddy terrain and deposited hi a towel to wipe off the wet, a touch of blood saturating the fabric from a piece of debris that had whipped across his face
"Yes Or accounted for - few are bunkered down in the perimeter shelters, but they’ve called in and nobody’s alone"
The words did nothing to ease the ugly knot in Cooper’s abdomen "Any word frorile" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>