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I watched as the falling figure without the parachute kept coming, faster and faster.
“Oh my God,” Garnett whispered.
“Jesus Christ,” someone else whispered.
I watched as the one who was obviously my son, who had the deployed parachute, separated from it.
One second it was attached to him, slowing him down, and the next he was falling fast away from the discarded parachute.
“Oh, sweet baby Jesus,” Hollis whispered shakily, her newborn daughter in her arms.
“Oh, God,” Ellodie cried. “We need to call ambulances. Now.”
I was on the phone and giving out information in seconds.
“Holy fuck, he’s moving,” I heard one of my boys say. “He’s going to catch her.”
He did, indeed, catch her.
They both went spiraling in the air, spinning so fucking fast that I didn’t think there was any way to stop it.
But miraculously, they did.
The spinning slowed and the secondary parachute shot from Quinn’s back. They both jerked upward, and their free falls slowed.
“They’re still coming too fast,” Gable murmured, terrifying worry etched on his face.
The same worry was reflected on all of our faces.
“Daddy, what’s happening?” Addison cried. “Daddy!”
I heard Keene murmur softly to his little girl, and then she was taken away from the group, along with Tex.
Hollis went as well, depositing her newborn baby in Keene’s arms before hustling back.
“I need someone to get the go-bag out of the cruiser.” Hollis stiffened. “I need this entire area cleared. It looks like they could land anywhere close. Auden, get your Jeep ready to go. We’re going to need to use it to drive over the terrain to get to them. Garrett, get on the phone with the hospital, we’re going to keep a doctor on the line while we triage this and wait for the medics.” She looked at Ande then. “Get your people on the line. We’re going to need Angel Flight.”
Everyone followed orders.
I stayed exactly where I was and prayed that what was likely to happen wouldn’t. That somehow, some way, a miracle would happen in front of my eyes. That I wouldn’t have to witness my son and the love of his life hit the ground right in front of me.
But that didn’t come to fruition.
Though the parachute did its job, it wasn’t enough with their combined weight.
I enjoy long walks on the beach, and that thing you do with your tongue.
—Quinn to Shayne
QUINN
The rush of falling couldn’t compare to anything I’d ever felt before.
Seeing the woman I love falling while I floated up high in the air above her? Now that would be the worst feeling I’d ever experience. Beyond hearing that she’d been hurt. Beyond her leaving me and never giving me another chance. Beyond any other worst case scenario that I could ever, and I do mean ever, imagine.
Because I was watching my soon-to-be wife free falling toward the ground and…
I didn’t think.
