Body By Night by Day Zuri

Author:Day, Zuri [Day, Zuri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2009-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

16

“You need to go home, Night. Get some proper sleep. I’ll watch over your mama.” Robert added bass to his voice in an attempt at sounding stern.

Night shook his head. “Can’t. Not until she opens her eyes.”

His uncle placed a hand on Night’s shoulder, nodding understanding. The jaws of life couldn’t have pried him away from Jewel’s side after her heart attack last year. Even after the beats had stopped and the line had gone smooth on the EKG machine, he’d refused to believe she was gone. Even after all the tubes were removed and her skin began to cool, he still stayed there just in case. Just in case by some miracle she opened her eyes. But she hadn’t, and the agony of seeing her sister, Night’s mother, lying in the same hospital was almost too much to bear, brought back images too painful to remember. But this was his favorite nephew and he wasn’t going anywhere. He owed the boy that, and his mother that much more.

“Go on home, son.” Now it was Carter Johnson’s turn to try and convince Night to get some much needed rest. “You don’t want to end up in a bed next to your mother, do you?”

Night looked at his stepfather and managed a smile. This man had been a stalwart of strength since coming into Night and his mother’s life when Night was fourteen years old. He’d gladly given the man-of-the-house reins to Carter when he entered the picture, but right now, Night felt that he was the man his mother needed most. And he wasn’t leaving her side.

“When she opens her eyes,” he said softly. He then grasped the hand of the woman he loved more than life itself and continued the one-way conversation he’d been having for seven straight days.

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