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“SUV,” Cate choked out, unable to tear her gaze away fro hiet hi to the main road”
Cate sat in the waiting room, apart from the others Liam had been airlifted to this hospital in Sheridan and was still in surgery, even though it had taken them more than an hour to drive here after the helicopter had thundered away Still in surgery is a good thing, she re to that hope, but in her head she was hearing Lia happen to you, Cateeven if I die for it”
“Don’t die,” she whispered noishing Liam could hear her “Don’t die” She stared at the scars on her wrists, rees of honor She would give anything to have hiht Hold her safe But not sacrifice his life for her Not that She’d never wanted that
Cate was vaguely ahen Sheriff Callahan walked into the roo the other three She knew he’d stayed behind to officially see to the disposition of Vishenko’s body, and to confer with Nick D’Arcy She didn’t knohy D’Arcy had been close by and not in Casper where he was supposed to meet her—and she hadn’t asked She’d been too concerned about Lias
Since the sheriff earing a shirt again—he’d used his for the pressure bandage on Lia seeh a ca around her really reached her All she could think of was Lia loaded into the helicopter that just ht make it to the hospital in time to save his life
Lia it to be the truth Maybe it’s not that bad Or maybe he needed a miracle
She clasped her hands together and bent her head as a sudden, urgent need rose in her, a need she tried to quashbut couldn’t She hadn’t prayed for ht what she’d suffered at Vishenko’s hands had killed her faithin God and in the goodness of oodness in the world, and he was a shining exa about mankind, then
At this moment she fervently wanted to believe in a just and merciful God, the way Liam believed “Don’t let him die,” she prayed “Oh God, if You can hear me, please don’t let him die”
So her hand on Cate’s folded hands She glanced up and saas Lia on the way to the hospital and ruffled her red-gold curls Now she looked just as Cate remembered her from when they’d met last year
“What were you and Lia at the cabin?” Keira asked quietly “You were supposed to be long gone”
Cate bit her lip “My fault,” she said, guilt swa her “I left my books behind” She squeezed her eyes shut as thethe SUV around and driving backave them to me,” she whispered “I just wantedjust wanted” She pressed the heels of her palainst her closed eyes to hold back the tears
Keira didn’t say anything, just waited patiently for Cate to regain her composure Cate breathed slowly, deeply, until she had herself under control, then dropped her hands in her lap and looked at the wo he’d told Cate about her Re Keira had been shot a few years back, had deliberately stepped in front of someone to take a bullet meant for him, to save his life The same way Liam had done for Cate
In her head she could hear Lia your fear and doing what you have to do in the instant you have to do it”
“Were you afraid?” she blurted out, needing to knohat Lia her froether in a question, she rushed to clarify “When you were shot When you put yourself between a bullet and someone else, were you afraid?”
Keira considered the question for a ht about it, probably I’d probably have been terrified But I didn’t have ti I had to dobecause I was the only one who could do it”