Page 236 of Rangers Last Promise

“I’m fairly certain I’d notice a bullet.”

“Humor me.”

Her hands touch my face.

“Look at me.”

I do.

“I’m not hit.”

My lungs finally work again.

She’s beneath me, surrounded by shattered glass, but she’s alive.

Angry.

Beautiful.

Alive.

I lower my forehead to hers for one second.

Then the phone on the floor crackles.

“Doc?”

Kane.

I grab the receiver.

“Where is the shooter?”

“I don’t know.”

“You said Vance was close.”

“He is.”

“Then tell me where.”

“If I knew, I would’ve already killed him.”

The line goes dead.

I stare at the phone.

Mara shifts beneath me.

“You’re heavy.”

I look down at her.

“You could show a little gratitude.”

“You could move your knee.”

I move it quickly when I realize where it is.