Bad Love (Modern Romance Book 2) by Piper Lawson

Author:Piper Lawson [Lawson, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-01T18:30:00+00:00

16

Things never go the way you plan.

Not that I had a plan for my mom to fall off a chair and be rushed to Yale New Haven Hospital.

But traffic seems to know it’s keeping me from my mom, that my heart is pounding out of my chest, and is flipping me an extremely rude gesture despite it.

It's Thursday, not Friday, but it seems as if the entire state is on the road as I drive my rental car toward Orange, Connecticut. I tap my fingers on the steering wheel the whole way there.

As I pass Orange on the turnpike and continue to the hospital, I call my father. "I'll be there in fifteen.”

When I arrive and park, I run through the endless halls. The hospital is an impressive facility, but it’s hard to be grateful for that right now. Either you’re there visiting someone, or you’re there as a patient, and usually the donor plaques and fake greenery aren’t foremost on your mind.

The last time I was here, I had Rory.

It brings up all kinds of feelings I’d thought I'd buried.

I find the right waiting room, and my dad.

"Kendall." He hugs me, some of his usual “what will be will be” replaced by a pale face. "Thank you for coming. We called your brothers but only reached Robert. William’s working."

I don’t say that it would’ve made my whole day if he’d called me first and not as a plan C. Instead I squeeze his hand. “I’m glad to be here.”

We go in together to see my mom, and my first thought is how small she looks in the bed. Like me, she's not short, but she looks as if she's lost weight since I saw her last. She’s also hooked up to some monitoring equipment, a machine that blinks silently behind her.

Her lips curve when she spots me and I try to focus on her, not the machines.

"Nice place you’ve got here,” I tease, looking around the two-person room with one empty bed.

Her eyes crinkle. “Slow day apparently.”

I take a seat next to her, smoothing down the blanket without taking my gaze from hers. “What were you doing?"

"Trying to fix something on the top shelf in the garage."

"You shouldn't do that."

"Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere."

Her life hasn't been easy. She does so much for my dad. She's his rock. From the look on his face, I think he's realizing that. Maybe more than he ever has.

I take her hand. "I'm glad you're okay."

I sit with her for a while, talking about nothing, keeping up my end of the conversation so she doesn’t feel as if she has to.

Meanwhile, I can’t help but notice the panels and screens behind her.

What would I have done if her fall had gone differently?

I would feel guilty, for one. I spend so much time worrying about them judging me, but maybe I judge them a little too.

After my mother falls asleep, my father sits with me. "The doctors think it was a stroke."

"A stroke? She's fifty-five.

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