Kale wanted to kill him.
The front entrance doors burst open. “I need some help over here!”
All eyes swung to the door.
Jimmy Tate, Sarah leaning against him, stumbled into the lobby.
Kale’s heart swelled. He rushed to her.
“Sarah! Are you all right?”
She blinked. Stared at him, her pupils wide.
Shit! He lifted her into his arms.
She was freezing.
Where the hell was her coat?
“We need to warm her up!” Kale shouted to anyone listening.
People started clambering around him.
“Let me go.” Sarah struggled against his hold.
“We need to get her to a hospital,” Kale said to the chief.
“No.” She struggled some more. “I’m all right. Put me down.”
He had no choice but to do as she said or risk dropping her. She staggered. He steadied her.
She searched the faces until she found the chief’s. “I can take you to where I was held.”
Kale shook his head. “First, we go to the hospital.”
“Listen to her,” August argued. “If she needed immediate medical attention, she would tell you.”
Sarah pushed away from Kale. Glowered at August. “Chief”—she looked directly at him then—“take me now before my memory is muddled with other influences.”
“Where’d you find her?” the chief asked Tate.
“I was on my way to work,” Jimmy told him. “Found her way down on 52. She was trying to climb outta the ditch. It’s a miracle I saw her. She’d about frozen to death. I wanted to take her to the ER but she made me bring her here.”
“Why the hell didn’t you call?” Kale demanded.
“I don’t have no cell phone,” Jimmy growled. “She wouldn’t let me stop nowhere. She wanted to come straight here.”
“We’re wasting time,” Sarah contended, her voice quivery and weak.
Kale jerked off his coat and wrapped it around her. She shuddered. Damn it! She needed medical attention. He didn’t care what she or anyone else said.
“Get the lady some coffee,” the chief shouted. “And let’s take her where she wants to go.”
After a few wrong turns in the woods, they found the location where Sarah had dropped her cell phone.
Sarah pointed to the shore. “Down there.”
Kale didn’t want her to go back down there, but there was no stopping her. Now that she had some caffeine in her veins, she was taking no orders from him. Or anyone else.
