you? How can you just calmly be sitting there when you’ve been shot? Help me get your jacket off so I can see how badly you’re hurt.”
“I’m fine,” he said, wincing while she slipped off his windbreaker. It had been chilly that morning outside the motel, but she’d suspected he’d put it on more to hide his shoulder-holstered gun than because he’d been cold. Beneath the jacket was a shamrock-green T-shirt touting the Santa Clara Lucky Clovers, the right side of which was covered in a dark stain.
Getting a woozy Beau out of the driver’s seat and around the front of the car was no easy feat.
Sucking her lower lip, she gingerly raised his shirt over his head to find a bloody mess. But thankfully it looked like the bullet had only grazed him. Nevertheless, his poor, bruised skin resembled a tenderized flank steak.
“How bad is it?” he asked in a scratchy voice.
“If we can manage to prevent it from getting infected long enough to get you to a doctor, odds are you’ll survive. Got any bottled water?”
He nodded. “In the back.”
“Okay. Looks like the bleeding’s long since stopped, so let’s get you washed up and laying down on the passenger side. Guzzle that water, and we’ll find the nearest town and a doctor.”
“W-what about you?”
“What about me? I’m not shot.”
“You going to run again?”
“Give me some credit, Beau. You could’ve been killed protecting me. Yes, more than anything in the world, I want to attend the Culinary Olympics, but not at the cost of someone’s life.” Especially not his. What he’d done for her might all be in a day’s work for him, but…
She was suddenly so overcome with emotion, she couldn’t even think, just gaze at him like some dopey starstruck teen. It felt as if only just now had she really, truly seen him. His darkly handsome, whisker-stubbled profile and eyes as deeply brown as the forest around them.
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