Page 8 of Nightingale


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A familiar man flagged her down. “Hey, you medical?” the man asked. “Need you to look at my woman.”

Amber nodded at him. The wholemy womanthing had her placing people in the Cro-Magnon stage of man.Grunt, grunt, woman here now.

Leaning against a bike, a woman clutched her right arm to her body. Almond shaped eyes glanced up at her. The woman had her jet black hair in a long braid down her back.

“This is Free,” the man said. “I’m—”

“Sherriff Weston?” Amber said, the words falling from her lips before she could stop herself.

“Technically, they call me Hollywood here.”

“Right, your bike is upright.”

“Our sides caused that dent in the trailer.”

Amber noticed there was a pretty good indent. She assumed that was from him. Free couldn’t have made that kind of impression. Shucking off her gloves again, she took Free’s arm in her hands and began to rotate the best she could. A hard hiss came from the woman with resistance and she stopped. Muscles were seizing up, but nothing more. Maybe slightly jammed. “She’ll be good, ice and ibuprofen, rest,” Amber said. “Have that Red guy double check once the—you know he’ll be busy.”

“So it’s not broken?”

“Don’t think so, an x-ray won’t hurt,” Amber said then looked at the man again. “What about you?”

“I’m good,” he said his voice stoic while shaking his head at the destruction around them. “How fucking far out are they?”

“Even in the city, they seem to take forever,” Amber commented.

He gave her knowing nod.

Amber then worked her way through the people.

A couple was close to her van sitting up, the woman kneeling by him and picking pebbles from his palm.

“Hi I’m Amber. I’m a nurse. Can I help you?”

“I’m Tempest and this lug here is Ax. I think we’re okay.”

“Let me be the judge of that. Neither of you look okay. You both are hurt. It’s a good thing that you all wear a lot of leather. I think it protected your bodies.” Amber looked around and noticed that most of them had on leather coats and leather chaps over jeans. Helmets weren’t as prevalent though, which made the fact all but one was moving around a miracle. They were dressed for the cooler fall weather and it had protected them from any serious wounds on their bodies. A few that were wearing helmets were okay.

Baldy and Lil’ Bit weighed heavily on her mind, but she needed to focus on Tempest and Ax. She once again gloved up and helped clean out the wound. From the corner of her eye she could see her van and not far up the road

Looking around, she spotted the big guy that had lifted the bike off the couple under the semi and she couldn’t help but admire him.

He stood well over six feet if not seven, and thick like a lumberjack. With brown eyes. His beard was full, but not unkempt as it covered his face with the same shade of brown as his short hair. Standing with a shotgun resting on his shoulder and covered in leather, he was ruggedly handsome.

A woman with a shockingly bright red coat brought him a bottle of water.

Amber refocused on the task at hand.

A light in her car caught her eye and she saw Maisie had her kindle out and was watching a movie on it with Callum. This allowed her to walk around and check back in on the people she had helped to see if they needed anything.

Several highway patrols, fire trucks, and ambulances started to arrive and Amber knew she wouldn’t be needed here. She didn’t want to leave though. Instead, she walked over to Shark and Lyna and checked on how they were doing.

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