Page 34 of Her Steadfast Hero

“Get to the basement. Dr. Adams is injured.”

“Roger.”

David and Gray took off at a dead run. Please don’t let it be a bad injury, Sarah would be inconsolable if Carys died.

* * *

By the time they got there, Aiden was beside Dr. Carys Adams. She had a shallow cut on her chest, that, thank the good Lord, was not going to need stitches.

“Report,” Gray said to Jack.

David looked around the small room in the basement. Three men had been killed by shots obviously fired by Jack. There was a man whose pants were around his ankles with his genitals sliced. Well, that required a little more explanation.

“When I got here, Dr. Adams had a knife to that fucker’s balls,” Jack pointed at the half-naked dead man.

“How’d she get the knife?” Gray asked.

“You’ll have to ask her. I’m just impressed she managed to get it and use it.” Jack grinned.

“Yeah, I can get behind that,” Gray said.

“Me too,” David said. Carys wasn’t paying attention to her admirers, it looked like she was in shock.

“Anyway, dickless was yelling at his men to shoot her. But they were all afraid to because they thought they might shoot him by mistake.”

“Are you shitting me?” Gray asked.

“Nope. That’s the point I showed up.”

“Are you sure she’s okay?” Gray asked.

Jack grinned again. “Aiden beat off all of her fellow doctors to take care of her. He’s going to make sure she’s fine physically. I think the trauma is going to take some time. But she’s one hell of a tough lady, she’ll make it.” Jack smiled.

“Where are they going to take her?” Gray asked David.

“To the hotel. We made that into the hospital. Then we’ll transfer everybody back to the hospital tomorrow.”

As soon as he thought of the hotel, he thought of Sarah. Was she there? Was she all right? Was she tired? When could he see her again? This wasn’t the time. He needed to focus on other things. Now that this was done he needed to talk to Joaquin and find out what happened to Juan and his cousin.

“I want to thank you for everything, Gray.” David held out his hand.

“I don’t suppose you have time for that drink,” Gray said.

“Not for a long while,” David said. Looking at both Gray and Jack Preston, he said, “I can’t thank you enough for everything you did here today.”

“David, it is amazing what you have accomplished here.”

David looked at Gray in shock. That was high praise coming from a man in charge of SEAL team.

“Thanks.”

“I don’t know if I’m going to be able to swing this, but I’m going to talk to my commander and see if we can stay and help out until things settle down.”

David saw Jack nod in agreement.

“After all, we can’t let the Army outdo the Navy.” Gray gave a smile.

David laughed, and it felt good.