Page 124 of Life To My Flight

The trial that Vanessa had been a part of in the first place was quickly decided in Brendan’s favor. They were both investigated, Brendan being found to have no involvement in the entire fiasco.

And he’d been investigated very thoroughly.

Tunnel’s death was huge.

The entire Ark-La-Tex had been in on the investigation.

FBI, state police, local police.

If they were a law enforcement official, they were affected.

It didn’t’ matter if they’d never met Tunnel before.

Cops had other cops’ backs. No matter what.

If one fell, you’d better believe that the wrath of the entire police community nationwide would feel it.

“That’s interesting. I voted for the death penalty, but the judge ignored me,” I muttered darkly.

“I’m sure you’re not the only one, darlin’,” Cody snorted. “I heard DP and Cord finally went home last week.”

I nodded. That’d been an interesting three months, sharing living space with three men.

DP and Cord lived in Southern Louisiana, about an hour outside of New Orleans.

They’d both stayed here for nearly a month, helping any way they could, where they could, staying for days at a time. When they’d gone home, they still came up every other weekend. Mainly it was to help Cleo, though. He felt incredible guilt over the fire, as did I.

They knew when they were needed, and Cleo definitely needed them.

This week, he’d finally told them they could stop coming, and they’d agreed to cool it.

“You’re man is here,” Danita said as she hung up the phone.

I looked up from my paperwork I was inputting for my patient in room six and smiled.

I hadn’t seen him in a two days.

We’d both been working hard, especially him.

When Silas bought Life Flight, he’d implemented some new policies, making Cleo pull a lot of overtime trying to make sure everything ran smoothly.

I missed him.

“Really? What’s he bringing in?” I asked as I signed off on my chart and pulled up the next one.

“He’s not. He’s coming to see you, I’m assuming. He just called and told me to send you out front in five minutes,” she said cagily.

Looking at her like she was a loony bird, I stood, and started walking towards the ambulance bay.

I don’t know what I expected.

The Life Flight helicopter…his bike maybe, but not this.

I stood at the glass, taking in the spectacle before me, and nearly dropped to my knees.

“What the hell?” I said breathily, as I pressed the little silver button on the wall that would open the doors for me.

As soon as they slid open enough for me to exit, I dashed through the doors and started running, coming to a stop once I was ten feet away from him.

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