✨EXCERPT: EMBERS IN OUR SOULS by @stefaniecastro.author releasing November 5th!
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The gurney is being packed up with supplies and I’m hopeful we’ll start getting him loaded into the ambulance.
It isn’t until I sweep my gaze over to my right that I see blue-gray eyes staring back at me. I’ve only ever seen that exact shade once in my life.
“Ty?” I feel like the wind has been knocked out of me. This day is already draining me emotionally and now the last person I expected to see is standing in front of me.
“Indy…”
I feel my body go numb. I don’t know why I had convinced myself I would never hear his voice again. It’s silly, really, because eventually we’d have to meet up. We have a history and a mess to clean up. Yet, if the goosebumps forming on my arm are any indication, he’s throwing me off balance by simply saying my name.
My brain and my body aren’t on the same damn page. I’m supposed to hate him, remember?
I look him up and down, trying to compose myself. It’s obvious from his attire he’s one of the firefighters helping Noah. How the hell is this happening right now? He’s in my world, in a way I never expected. For years, I compartmentalized him; being so far away, never expecting him to stand so close to me again. Now he’s here, close enough I could touch him, although he feels so much further than ever before.
I don’t want little ears hearing this conversation, so I quickly whisper to Noah, “Mommy is going to find out what’s going on, but I’ll be close by.” He nods while another paramedic is caring for him.
I walk over and stare at Ty, looking him up and down, still wondering if I’m conjuring him from my imagination. This can’t be possible that after so much time, Tyler Hunter is standing before me at my son’s school.
“Do you two know each other?” I’m startled from my thoughts by another gentleman from Tyler’s unit.
“Um, yeah, we, uh—” But I’m cut off when Ty decides to speak for us both.
“Yeah. She’s my wife.”
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