Enjoy the following excerpt for CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE...
Gabe Sullivan’s
captain, Todd, stepped into the room.
“How’re you
feeling, Gabe?”
“Good, Captain.”
He moved to sit up
straighter on the bed and Todd shook his head. “You’re fine just
like that. I know your skull must hurt like hell.” He nodded back
to the doorway. “Are you ready to see Ms. Harris and her daughter,
Summer?”
No, he
thought, he’d be better off never seeing those eyes
again.
He’d thought
about Megan and her daughter one too many times for comfort. Not just
because he was reviewing the rescue, trying to look for what he could
have done differently, to have gotten them out faster and more
safely—but because he hadn’t been able to forget her strength,
how hard she’d fought to stay conscious, and what a fighter she’d
been every single second of the harrowing journey from her burning
apartment.
Still, he
understood that fire victims often felt compelled to say thank you to
the men who had saved them. Especially in a case like this, where
they’d just barely held death at bay.
“Sure.” He
began to nod, but a sharp shooting pain stopped him halfway into the
movement.
Catching his
grimace, Todd said, “I’ll ask Megan and her daughter to come back
later.”
Her name fit her,
Gabe had found himself thinking one too many times. Megan was
pretty and strong all at the same time. It would be better to think
of her as Ms. Harris. Although, he had to wonder, was there a
husband? And if so, where had he been during the fire and why wasn’t
he here with them now?
“No,” he said,
“it’ll be better if I see them now.”
She’d say thank
you, he’d tell her he was happy to see her and her daughter doing
so well, and that would be that. No more being haunted by her eyes,
by the surprising strength she’d shown him as she’d crawled on
the floor of her apartment and down the stairs.
A couple of minutes
later, Todd walked back in with the mother and daughter. Ignoring the
pain in his head, Gabe sat up higher and forced a smile on his face.
And then, his eyes
locked with Megan’s and his smile froze in place.
My God, he
found himself thinking before he could shove the thought away, she’s
beautiful.
The last time he’d
seen her face it had been through a thick haze of dark smoke and the
knowledge that one wrong move meant their lives were over. Her eyes
were just as big and pretty, her limbs looked as lean and strong as
they had when he’d been helping to move her along the floor, but
now he could see the softness in her, the sweet curves of her breasts
and hips in her T-shirt and jeans. He couldn’t stop staring at the
startling green of her eyes, the silky dark hair falling across her
shoulders, and the way her pretty young daughter was a carbon copy of
her, the only difference their hair color, one dark, one light.
She seemed just as
stunned as he and for a long moment, the two of them just stared at
each other in silence until her daughter ran over to him and threw
her arms around him.
..Excerpt from CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE by Bella Andre ©2012.
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