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shouted as he swung his machine off the trail to avoid hitting Rafe. He rammed the vehicle into several small saplings that hopefully wouldn’t do much damage.
    Brady shut off his vehicle and jumped off his machine, cursing Rafe for being just as careless as Dan.
    But Rafe didn’t appear to take offence. Instead, he pointed to an abandoned atv further along the trail.
    Shit .
    They had found Dan’s vehicle. But where was Dan?

    * * * * *

    “Oh JJ, the view is just beautiful from the sky. That sunset tonight…with the wisps of pinks and purples lacing the puffy white clouds, it would seriously take your breath away seeing it from above. Not to mention the freedom of just being alive as you fly right through the clouds.
    It is an unbelievable freedom. It’s a view that most humans never get,” Blue said as she helped JJ
    fork some hay into a barn stall where a very pregnant cow lounged.
    “I’m sure it is beautiful, but I just don’t know if my anxiety will prevent me from ever getting up into the sky again,” JJ admitted.
    “Yeah, Kelly told me that you had a problem with anxiety and panic attacks. But people overcome these things all the time. She said she sent you a couple of books and some links to check out online.”
    “I really haven’t had the time to do any in-depth reading and I seriously don’t think there is an easy cure for my issues.”
    “You need to make the time, JJ. Educating yourself on your problem is already half the battle won. Did Kelly tell you I had a problem with anxiety myself when I was younger?”
    JJ shook her head. Blue had had issues too? That was impossible. She appeared so confident and she flew bush planes! Her panic must not have been serious, if she was able to conquer it.
    “No, she didn’t tell me.”
    JJ placed her pitchfork against the nearest stable door, grabbed some feed and tossed it into the stall.
    The cow mooed her thanks and gazed up at JJ with the cutest black eyes.
    “Everything is going to be just fine,” she soothed to the cow. “The first time in having a baby is the hardest, but you’ll get through okay. When Dan gets back…” She bit back a bubble of emotion. “When he gets back, he’ll take really good care of you. I just hope you can hold out until then, because I am really not sure how to be a midwife to a cow. It’s something I will have to learn, I guess.”
    The cow mooed and JJ and Blue laughed.
    “I think she understands you,” Blue said with a smile.
    JJ grinned. Aside from appearing a bit shy first thing this morning when Blue had joined them for breakfast, she’d kept JJ occupied most of the day with her chatter and now with night falling quickly she hoped the guys would be back. They had to come back. All of them. If they didn’t, she would start screaming and simply lose her mind with worry.
    “How bad was your anxiety? When did it start?” JJ asked as curiosity won out over her worry for her men.
    “Oh please, it was bad. I was the queen of anxiety, especially after this…”
    To JJ’s surprise, Blue unbuttoned several of her top buttons of her blouse. She pulled the material aside, and to JJ’s horror, there were three round puckered scars on her chest near her heart.
    “Bullet wounds,” Blue said with a stern nod.
    “Oh my God! I had heard you were a cop at one point.”
    “Actually, yes, I was a cop. Followed my dad, my uncle and two brothers into the force, but then I ended up quitting after a couple of years because it wasn’t for me. So I decided to become a nurse…that’s when some nutjob high on drugs came into a clinic where I’d been volunteering and shot me point blank. I took three bullets in the chest, one in my left thigh and one in my right shoulder. I died on the operating table three times. Or so they tell me.”
    Stunned disbelief rocked JJ.
    “Blue, I am so sorry that happened to you.”
    “It wasn’t a picnic. Unfortunately, it took a long time to physically recuperate, and then when I went