Chapter Twenty-One
Lucas
Rain struck my cheeks, coming down fast and hard. Thunder rumbled in the distance, and the sky lit up with a bolt of lightning, bright enough to illuminate the mountain ridge nearby.
“You got that?” I called over to Dawson.
“Got it,” he replied, his words barely audible through the downpour.
The storm had rolled in late this afternoon. Slashing winds brought a tree down across the highway and into the path of a car. Dawson and I were both on duty for the crew this weekend. We’d driven out to the accident scene together to rendezvous with the EMT team and the police.
By some miracle, the three passengers in the car didn’t appear injured; however, they were definitely trapped. Our chief had called ahead to get the power cut here because on its way down, the tre
