Put
Out
Kilgore Fire Series
#5
By Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Date:
January 26, 2017
Cover
Model: Matthew Hosea
Photographer: Furious
Fotog
Angie is a
survivor. Anything you could throw at her, she could overcome.
After her father
left her like a pile of unwanted trash, she began fighting. Fighting to build a
life. Fighting to keep her child. Fighting to matter.
She thought she
had it all figured out.
Then Bowen Race
Tannenbaum walks into her life, turning it into a flurry of confusion, hope,
and then ultimately despair. He tore down, brick-by-brick, her carefully
constructed world, leaving her heart in tatters and longing for more. Such as a
happily ever after, something that wasn’t ever going to happen for her. Not
when she couldn’t give him what he wanted. He’d break her, and she couldn’t be
put back together a second time.
Bowe wasn’t
always so jaded, but when you keep drawing a losing hand, it tends to affect a
man. He didn’t mean to lash out so carelessly. But he was so over being told
no. He was done being lied to. He was through with being cheated on.
This time, his
heart was getting what it wanted. If Angie wasn’t able to see what he was
offering, what was right here in front of her, well then, he’d just have to
damn well show her.
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I headed toward the yelling. The closer I
got, the louder it became.
At first I wasn’t sure what it was. Then the
closer I got, the more I realized that it was someone cheering. Some sort of
competition from the sound of it.
The moment I rounded the corner of the
firehouse, I could see what everyone was cheering and yelling about.
The firehouse stood on a large hill or sorts,
and the moment I cleared the building, I could see down into the valley below
the hill, not far, but far enough that I could see over the men’s heads,
straight for the obstacle course below.
Bowe had already started his testing.
Feeling like shit that I’d left him with
Elise too long, and he’d had to bring her with him, I automatically started
scanning for her, and found her with PD.
Once I saw that she was happy, I moved my
gaze back to the course, and was amazed by how fast Bowe was moving.
A man was also running with him, and upon
closer inspection, I realized it was Booth.
Booth, I’d heard, held the best time on the
course.
And it looked like Bowe was holding his own.
He wasn’t winning, no, but for him being off
for so long, I thought he was doing pretty damn good.
Then instead of taking the last flight of
stairs with his patient, he jumped over the side, cradling the dummy.
It, of course, wouldn’t work in real life.
Not with someone that was sick or in need of
life saving measures.
But it worked for now.
Laughing out loud, I yelled.
“Go, Bowe! Go!” I screamed, cupping my hands
around my mouth to project the sound further.
He didn’t hear me over the crowd, but my
daughter did.
She turned her head, and immediately started
to clap her hands as she realized it was me.
Grinning from ear to ear, I walked towards
her, glancing over her shoulder at Bowe as I moved.
I weaved through the throng of men, some
firefighters
Bowe had just crossed the finish line, Booth
very close at his heels, when I reached Elise.
“Hey there, baby,” I cooed.
She giggled, but didn’t hold her hands out
for me, so I chose to let PD hold her for a few more seconds as I turned to the
field.
That’s when I saw Bowe.
Shirtless.
Laughing his ass off while he shook Booth’s
hand, who, conveniently, was also shirtless.
Both men were wiping sweat out of their faces
with their shirts, talking about what I’d guess was the course they’d just run,
when Bowe’s eyes lifted and found mine.
I waved, and he grinned, full out.
His beard and sweat slickened hair made him
look rough and delicious, and I wanted to freakin’ throw myself at him.
I had a little bit of decorum, though, and
managed to give him a small peck on the cheek the moment he arrived at my side.
“When did you get here?” he asked, slightly
out of breath.
I started to lean back when he started to
lean forward, and his eyes started to dance as he moved with me.
“About two minutes ago,” I giggled when he
captured me around the waist and hauled me against him.
“My wife doesn’t kiss me like that when I’m
sweaty,” a man from my side whined.
Yes, a grown man with six foot two inches of
solid muscle, whined.
I gave him a look, which clearly, he read,
causing him to grin.
“The name’s Luke.” He offered me his hand.
“And I’m the SWAT team leader.”
I shook his offered hand and dropped it after
two pumps, trying in vain to disentangle my body from Bowe’s.
“The problem, old man, is that you give her a
choice,” another, a redhead this time, called from somewhere behind me.
“Miller,” someone said. “Mercy would kick
your ass if she thought you were not letting her have her way.”
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