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“Yes,” he replied. “Need...to...get...back...”
“Here they come. They’ll get us out of here,” Brody said. “Just hang on.”
Nash struggled to get enough air in his lungs to keep from passing out. He counted the seconds, his gut telling him he needed to hurry.
He was up to one hundred seconds when Max returned with four other guys.
Four men positioned themselves on opposite sides of the structure and gripped the metal struts. The fifth man stood close to Nash.
“On three,” Max called out. “One...two...three!”
The men all lifted as one.
As soon as the weight was off him, Nash sucked in a deep breath. The man standing near him grabbed his arm and pulled him from beneath the metal.
Nash looked toward the other guy who’d been trapped beneath the wreckage.
Brody had dragged himself out from under the fixture.
By the time the four men had lowered the structure, others came running from all over.
“I called 911,” one man said. “They’re sending an ambulance.
Nash struggled to his hands and knees.
Someone laid a hand on his shoulder. “Hey, buddy, you should stay down until the paramedics get here. You could have some damage to your back.”
Nash shook his head. “Just help me up.” He had to get to her. As he searched the faces standing around, he didn’t find Julia’s. And he wasn’t sure what Alan Sarley looked like.
With each passing second, he was more and more convinced Londyn was in danger.
His heart raced, and his breathing became labored and not from the weight of the metal crushing him into the earth. A flashback of Waterson filled his memories, and he knew how that had ended.
He wouldn’t let that be how things went down this time. Not with Londyn. Not on his watch.
Londyn worried about what Julia and her giant-sized minion had done to Nash. She had to know. The man she’d tried to get rid of at first had proven himself to be a true hero. The kind of man most women could only dream of.
In the short time they’d been together, he’d managed not only to save her life twice, but he’d also gotten under her skin.
As she’d learned the hard way, when you loved someone, you held on as long as you could and loved them with every fiber of your being. Life could be fleeting. She had to treat every day like it could be her last. And she wanted to spend every one of them with that annoying man who’d insisted on protecting her when she’d believed she could take care of herself.
“What did you do to Nash?” she asked, praying they’d been bluffing when they’d said he wouldn’t be coming to her rescue.
“Let’s just say we knocked his lights out,” Julia said, her lips curling in a feral smile. “We wouldn’t have had to if you’d just gone into your trailer when you were supposed to.”
“So, you set the charges and tampered with the props?”
“Alan, here, loves to make a big splash. You’re all about the drama, aren’t you, my love?”
Alan slipped an arm around Julia’s waist without replying.
Londyn’s eyes narrowed. “Which one of you poisoned my horse with amphetamines?”
Julia practically purred. “You were the one who insisted on bringing your own animal to the game. I knew that if something happened to it, you’d get angry and leave. I was right—and from what I heard, you almost drowned getting her back.” The bitch tsked her tongue. “Such a shame your boyfriend was there to pull your ass out of the water. Again, this,” she waved her hand at the interior of the cabin, “wouldn’t be happening if you’d just die. What are you? A cat with nine lives?”
Londyn’s lips pulled back in a snarl. “You nearly killed my horse. I swore I’d find the person who did that and make him pay. And if you hurt Nash, I swear I’ll take you down.”
“Now then, that will be kind of hard to do if you’re not around.” Julia’s mouth formed a thin, hard line. “Enough talk. We don’t have much time.” She glanced at Alan and jerked her head toward Londyn. “You know what to do.”
