Page 9 of Rockstar Rescue
Beneath it, he wears a white shirt, half the buttons gone. I remove that too.
Dylan flinches when the air hits his skin.
I check the shallow cuts on his chest—nothing deep. He’s pale, though, too pale.
“Remember hitting your head?”
He shakes his head. "Not sure. “
“Any dizziness? Blurred vision?”
“At first. But not now.”
“Still cold as hell in here. Let me light a fire.”
I cross the room to the fireplace, kneel, and feed it tinder from the kindling box. The flame catches fast.
In a moment, the scent of burning slogs floods the cabin.
When I turn back, Dylan’s eyes are wide open.
Clearer now. Icy blue and too sharp for someone I earlier feared was at death's door.
Everything about him is sharp. The lines of his body. His gorgeous, chiseled face.
“You’re not from these parts,” I say.
“New York.” His voice barely rises over the crackle of the fire.
Figures.City man on a mountain road.
“Alright, New York,” I say, taking a folded blanket from the storage closet and tucking it carefully around his broad shoulders.
“I’m going to give you a bath. Then get that blood off you. You okay with that?”
He nods. “You run this place alone?”
“Since my dad died,” I say, feeling the still raw pang of his loss. “now I'm going to heat the water. Charlie Boy, watch him!”
My dog leaps up to the sofa, snuggling up against the big man.
I head to the stove, set the kettle on, then start filling pots for the old tin tub tucked beside the bathroom wall.
It takes forever, but eventually water hisses against the hot metal.
Tonight, survival means heat, water, and keeping him awake.
CHAPTER 7
GINNY
“You want me to get into that?!” Dylan laughs, as I drag the old tin tub before the fire. “This place doesn’t have plumbing?”
“Yes. But you’re in no condition to stand under a shower. I need to clean your wounds and put anesthetic on it.”
Charlie Boy watches my every move as I haul the last pot of boiling water and dump it in. I follow it up with tap water. I will be lukewarm, but it will have to do.
At least it won't freeze his balls off,I think to myself.
