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“Did you two rehearse that? Where’s the dog now?”
“He’s in the bathroom,” Lily said. “If I let him out, he’d lick you to death. She tried to get up right after she fell. That’s when she realized she may have broken something.”
“It didn’t hurt at first. I just had the wind knocked out of me, but as soon as I tried to move, well…I’m afraid my hip is broken.” Aunt Maddie’s voice shook a little with that admission. Spry and energetic for her age, she had never been the type to sit idle. A serious injury would curb all of the activities that kept her mind and her spirit so vital.
“I didn’t try to move her after that,” Lily said. “I just brought the blankets and pillows to make her more comfortable, and then I convinced her to let me call 911.”
“I didn’t want to trouble anyone.”
Quinn stepped forward now with his own flashlight and carefully positioned it so the upward facing beam illuminated the corner of the staircase. “It’s no trouble for us, Mrs. M. We’re glad we can help. Now, my partner here is going to check you out, and then we’re going to bring a flat board in here so we can move you without causing you too much pain.”
“Quinn? Is that you?” Aunt Maddie shifted uncomfortably as if trying to get a better look at the man beneath the rain-soaked neon orange jacket.
Lily eyed him suspiciously. Even in the diffuse beam from the flashlight, he seemed to be blushing.
“Yes, Mrs. M, it’s me.”
“Oh, I knew I recognized that voice. Oh, Lily, dear, this is the young man I was telling you about.”
Lily stifled a moan. Back in April Aunt Maddie had bid on a bachelor at the Women’s Auxiliary Club charity auction. Lily had no idea it was Quinn. If she had…well….
Tanner eyed them both again, and Quinn gave him what appeared to be a warning look. Lily would have shriveled up and died at that moment had her aunt not been in pain. “Can I do anything to help you?” she said, careful to keep her gaze fixed on Tanner.
“You can get anything together that she’ll need with her at the hospital, insurance card, eyeglasses…and if she takes any medications if you could grab the bottles or make a list for us.”
“I’ll take care of it. Aunt Maddie, I’ll be right back. Where are your pills?”
“In the cabinet above the kitchen sink, dear.”
“I’ll be right back.” Grateful for an excuse to get away from Quinn, Lily scrambled down the hall to the kitchen. Ricki let out a curious, high-pitched woof followed by a low growl as she passed the bathroom, but she ignored him. He’d have to stay put until the excitement died down or he’d pee all over everything.
She heard the front door open and close and assumed Quinn had gone back outside to get the flat board they needed to carry Aunt Maddie to the ambulance. What a horrible night for this to have happened, not just because of the storm, but because Tanner and Quinn were on duty. There was no way to avoid him, and what made it worse was he knew Aunt Maddie. Her cheeks burned at the thought that she’d slept with a man who had gone on a date with her seventy-year-old aunt. Of course their charity dinner had been purely platonic, but still, if she had thought for a moment she could somehow live down the shame of Quinn forgetting her name, this compounded the indignity a hundred-fold. She’d had to have her summer fling; she’d had to ignore her own carefully constructed rules just once because she owed it to herself to live a little, and now she’d spend the rest of her life trying to live down that one reckless night.
Chapter Twelve
“It may take us a little longer to get to the hospital,” Quinn told Mrs. Moriarty as he finished securing the stretcher in the back of the rig. “Dispatch says they’ve closed parts of Lakeside Drive because of flooding.”
Pale from discomfort and shivering a bit from the chilly trip from her front door to the back of the ambulance, his patient
“He’s in the bathroom,” Lily said. “If I let him out, he’d lick you to death. She tried to get up right after she fell. That’s when she realized she may have broken something.”
“It didn’t hurt at first. I just had the wind knocked out of me, but as soon as I tried to move, well…I’m afraid my hip is broken.” Aunt Maddie’s voice shook a little with that admission. Spry and energetic for her age, she had never been the type to sit idle. A serious injury would curb all of the activities that kept her mind and her spirit so vital.
“I didn’t try to move her after that,” Lily said. “I just brought the blankets and pillows to make her more comfortable, and then I convinced her to let me call 911.”
“I didn’t want to trouble anyone.”
Quinn stepped forward now with his own flashlight and carefully positioned it so the upward facing beam illuminated the corner of the staircase. “It’s no trouble for us, Mrs. M. We’re glad we can help. Now, my partner here is going to check you out, and then we’re going to bring a flat board in here so we can move you without causing you too much pain.”
“Quinn? Is that you?” Aunt Maddie shifted uncomfortably as if trying to get a better look at the man beneath the rain-soaked neon orange jacket.
Lily eyed him suspiciously. Even in the diffuse beam from the flashlight, he seemed to be blushing.
“Yes, Mrs. M, it’s me.”
“Oh, I knew I recognized that voice. Oh, Lily, dear, this is the young man I was telling you about.”
Lily stifled a moan. Back in April Aunt Maddie had bid on a bachelor at the Women’s Auxiliary Club charity auction. Lily had no idea it was Quinn. If she had…well….
Tanner eyed them both again, and Quinn gave him what appeared to be a warning look. Lily would have shriveled up and died at that moment had her aunt not been in pain. “Can I do anything to help you?” she said, careful to keep her gaze fixed on Tanner.
“You can get anything together that she’ll need with her at the hospital, insurance card, eyeglasses…and if she takes any medications if you could grab the bottles or make a list for us.”
“I’ll take care of it. Aunt Maddie, I’ll be right back. Where are your pills?”
“In the cabinet above the kitchen sink, dear.”
“I’ll be right back.” Grateful for an excuse to get away from Quinn, Lily scrambled down the hall to the kitchen. Ricki let out a curious, high-pitched woof followed by a low growl as she passed the bathroom, but she ignored him. He’d have to stay put until the excitement died down or he’d pee all over everything.
She heard the front door open and close and assumed Quinn had gone back outside to get the flat board they needed to carry Aunt Maddie to the ambulance. What a horrible night for this to have happened, not just because of the storm, but because Tanner and Quinn were on duty. There was no way to avoid him, and what made it worse was he knew Aunt Maddie. Her cheeks burned at the thought that she’d slept with a man who had gone on a date with her seventy-year-old aunt. Of course their charity dinner had been purely platonic, but still, if she had thought for a moment she could somehow live down the shame of Quinn forgetting her name, this compounded the indignity a hundred-fold. She’d had to have her summer fling; she’d had to ignore her own carefully constructed rules just once because she owed it to herself to live a little, and now she’d spend the rest of her life trying to live down that one reckless night.
Chapter Twelve
“It may take us a little longer to get to the hospital,” Quinn told Mrs. Moriarty as he finished securing the stretcher in the back of the rig. “Dispatch says they’ve closed parts of Lakeside Drive because of flooding.”
Pale from discomfort and shivering a bit from the chilly trip from her front door to the back of the ambulance, his patient
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