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child would regain
consciousness as she and Adam transferred her onto the makeshift
backboard, padding and immobilizing her head and neck with the
towels and duct tape.
    As they carefully loaded the child into the rear of
Annie’s SUV, a police cruiser rolled up. Luke explained the
situation to John Gilbert, Redemption’s police chief, and requested
an escort.
    When they were ready to roll, Sabrina and Adam
climbed in back with Jillian.
    “You ride up front, Mrs. Cooper,” Luke called as he
carefully closed the rear of the SUV.
    “But my husband is—”
    “He can follow in your car or one of the neighbors
can drive him.” As Luke slid behind the wheel and started the
engine, the cop’s radio squawked as Chief Gilbert called dispatch
to inform the hospital they were en route and cancel the request
for an ambulance. He told Mr. McKinnon another officer was on his
way to take his statement.
    Before Luke even pulled out of the subdivision
behind the police car’s flashing lights, Jillian stirred. Sabrina
heaved a relieved sigh. “She’s coming around.”
    “That’s a good sign, right?” Mrs. Cooper asked,
panic rising in her voice.
    “It’s a very good sign,” Adam said.
    Luke winked at Sabrina in the rearview mirror. “Your
daughter has an excellent nurse, so relax. If you’re upset, Jillian
will be, too.”
    Sabrina hated to think how everyone would’ve handled
the crisis if Luke hadn’t been there. His levelheaded, take-charge
demeanor stirred her nesting instincts and made him seem even more
desirable as a mate.
    When the little girl began to cry, Sabrina stroked
her cheek to keep her calm. “I know it hurts to breathe and your
head aches, sweetie. Try to take little, baby breaths. We’ll be
there any second.”
    She sang to the child while the police siren blared
ahead of them, allowing Luke to make the normally twenty-minute
trip in slightly more than ten.
    Blessedly, when they pulled in at the emergency
entrance, the trauma team was waiting outside. David Lambert, a
pediatrician Sabrina knew well, took charge.
    While Luke gave him the rundown on what had
happened, the team quickly transferred the boogie board onto the
hospital’s gurney. Mrs. Cooper squeezed Sabrina’s hand. “I don’t
know how I can ever thank the three of you.”
    “You don’t have to. We just want Jillian to be
okay,” Sabrina assured her. “She’ll be in good hands with Dr.
Lambert.”
    “I know. He’s Jillian’s doctor, and he’s wonderful
with her.”
    Adam offered Mrs. Cooper his arm as they followed
the gurney into the hospital. “I’ll sit with you until your husband
gets here.”
    “You two might as well go back to your party,” Chief
Gilbert told them. “I’ll give Dr. Chase a ride back when he’s
ready.”
    “Thanks.” Sabrina waved and turned back to Luke,
catching a pretty triage nurse giving him the eye over her
shoulder. The petite woman was exactly the type Luke had always
dated— everything Sabrina wasn’t .
    She couldn’t recall him ever getting involved with a
blond. His tiny dates all had dark hair and eyes and boobs big
enough to serve as personal airbags in a car crash.
    Aside from the requisite centerfold breasts,
Sabrina’s sister-in-law exemplified Luke’s taste in women. When
they’d met the previous fall, his teasing threats to steal Annie
from Tyler had made Sabrina insanely jealous.
    As the busty Florence Nightingale hurried inside
after the rest of the trauma team, Luke slung his arm around
Sabrina’s shoulder. “Maybe we should start an ambulance service
together?”
    Being rescue buddies wasn’t at all the kind of
partnership she wanted with him. She turned into his chest and
buried her face in his knit shirt. The overpowering smell of
laundry soap masked his usual masculine scent. Someone needed to
teach the idiot not to put so much detergent in his wash.
    “Truthfully, working at the hospital was less
stressful. I don’t think I could handle this much excitement