Angel by Jamie Canosa

Author:Jamie Canosa [Canosa, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781514783610
Google: HbEdswEACAAJ
Amazon: 1514783614
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Groaning into my pillow, I rolled over and slapped at the clock on my bedside table. Would I ever get a good night’s sleep again? I’d laid awake for hours before exhaustion finally pulled me under and I was nowhere near ready to get up again. My fumbling fingers sought out the snooze button, stabbing at it repeatedly, but the noise refused to stop.

“What the—?”

Lifting my head, I blinked at the clock. And blinked again. 12:47? What the hell was my clock going off at nearly one in the morning for? Only it wasn’t my clock. It was my cell phone . . . And it was ringing . . . At nearly one in the morning.

Shaking my sleep muddled brain into gear, I snatched it up and slid my finger across the smooth glass screen. My heart pounded against my ribs, knowing who it was, knowing something was wrong, before her soft voice ever hit my ears.

“Jade? What’s wrong?”

“I . . . can’t . . .” She gasped and choked on her words, sending my own lung function into overdrive.

“What? What happened?” No response, only more tiny gasps and a frightened whimper. “You can’t what, Jade?”

“Breathe.” The word was barely audible, but it’s what I’d been expecting, so I heard it loud and clear.

“Okay.” Easing off the bed, I aimed to keep my voice calm. Her desperate, stuttering breaths were scaring the crap out of me, but she was in the midst of a panic attack and if I added to that fear it would only make things worse. “Slow and steady.” I pulled the phone away from my ear long enough to tug on a shirt from the foot of my bed. “Inhale . . . Exhale . . . Just breathe.” She was trying. I could hear her trying to calm herself, but I knew firsthand how hard that could be. How painful. Panic attacks could make you feel like your lungs had sealed up. Set your whole chest on fire. “I know it hurts. Just breathe through it, Jade. Are you at home?”

“Yes.” The terror filled word tore through me and I clenched my phone hard enough to make my bones ache.

“Is anyone there with you?” She didn’t have much of a support system, I knew that, but she wasn’t going to be able to break through the attack alone.

“My-my mother’s . . . passed . . . out.”

Goddammmit. There were a host of things I would have liked to call that pathetic excuse for a human being who had the nerve to call herself a parent, but it wasn’t the time. Panic attacks weren’t nearly as life threatening as they felt while having one. Worst case scenario she’d pass out from lack of oxygen and start breathing normally again on her own. But it was so much worse than that. She was upset, hurting, in agony, and all alone. I knew what that felt like and I’d be damned if I’d let her face it on her own.

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