Feel the Rush: A Hard Feelings Novel (InterMix) by Kelsie Leverich Read Free Book Online

handheld radio. God, Reed hoped like hell they wouldn’t have to use it.
    “Dammit, pull your reserve!” Reed yelled, knowing good and well the soldier couldn’t hear him, but the need to do something, anything, to help the guy out was clawing at him.
    Just as the soldier was reaching the top of the trees, his reserve chute shot up—but it wouldn’t do much to soften the land.
    Reed and Sanders both sucked in a breath in unison, cringing as they watched the soldier hit the ground.
    “Oh, fuck,” Sanders said as he released the breath he was holding.
    They both stood there for what seemed like forever when it fact it was no more than a second or two, waiting for the soldier to hit his knees, to give the “All okay, jumpmaster.” But he didn’t.
    “Let’s go!” Reed said, jumping in the truck. Sanders tossed him the radio and then hopped in behind the wheel.
    “We need a medic on-site, now. Soldier’s chute didn’t open; reserve was pulled at about two hundred feet. We are on our way to him now, about one hundred and forty yards out,” Reed said into the radio. His words were calm, even, and completely in control—the complete opposite of what he was feeling inside, but he was the company commander, it was his job to stay in control.
    The truck pulled up next to the solider and Reed was out of the cab before it rolled to a complete stop. There was blood covering the guy’s pants across his thigh and Reed didn’t need to cut through them to know that he’d broken his femur. The way his leg was bulging through the material and the way the fabric was stained crimson was evidence enough.
    “Hey, Sergeant,” Reed said, the level of his voice lowered to a tone you would use to sooth a child. “You’ll be fine, my man, we gotcha.”
    The young soldier was in shock, his screams turning into moans, but there was nothing Reed could do but wait for the medics to pull up.
    ***
    It was Meagan’s second day working in the emergency room at the Martin Army Community Hospital on post. She was lucky to even have this job. She didn’t know what the hell she was thinking when she up and quit her job at Fort Drum to move here. Sure, she’d wanted a change of scenery, but it was kind of reckless. Thankfully they hired her on and she was able to start immediately. She loved being a nurse, and working in the ER was going to be a nice change from the clinic back at Drum. She was just
rolling
in the changes these days.
    “So, Meagan, how’s your second day treating you?” Zoe, a tall voluptuous brunette with legs that went all the way up to her eyeballs, asked as she leaned against the nurses’ station.
    “It’s going really well.”
    “Yeah, the staff showing you the ropes okay?” An extremely tall, dark, and handsome doctor said as he walked up and leaned against the desk next to Zoe. Okay, so if this were an episode of
Grey’s Anatomy
she would have most definitely been staring at McSteamy or McDreamy—she never remembered which one was which—but it didn’t matter because this doctor was all of the above. He was tall and lean, but what she could see of his arms gave her a clear idea of how chiseled his body was underneath his ACU pants and his scrub top and let’s just say she was fighting back the heat that was threatening to rise in her cheeks.
    “Yeah, they’ve been great.”
    “Good. I’m Dr. Ryan, by the way,” he said, reaching out his hand to Meagan. “But please, call me Jason.”
    Well damn, the blushing came. “Hi, Jason, I’m Meagan,” she said, smiling like the band nerd who just got asked to prom by the star quarterback.
    Somewhere in the midst of the ten seconds of the McDreamy introduction, Meagan missed the phone ringing at the nurses’ station. It wasn’t until Zoe rushed around the desk and stopped in front of them that she registered it. “We’ve got a soldier coming in with a broken femur.” Dr. Ryan instantly dropped Meagan’s hand and they both turned to Zoe as she