Damaged Professor: An Age Gap Billionaire Romance by Summer James

Author:Summer James [James, Summer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-01-19T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter sixteen

Dylan

“Where are they?” I demand, pushing my way into the waiting room of the hospital. The bright white lights are glaring above me, and the whole place smells of antiseptic and orange cleaner. Ashton jumps to his feet, throwing his arms around me and pulling me in for the kind of bear hug that is usually just reserved for holidays or when our mother is around.

I’m quick to return it, the motion absolutely instinctual in the way that my arms curl around him. “I can’t believe you actually came out here.”

“Of course I came out! You can’t call and tell me your kid is in the hospital, and then act surprised that I came out here.” I argue, finally breaking free from his otherwise unrelenting grip on me. “That’s ridiculous. Which one got hurt?”

“It’s Jenna,” says Ashton. He’s divorced, but he has two kids, both under the age of fourteen. They live with his wife, Liv, a little more than half the time because of Ashton’s work schedule. But as a family, they are on great terms with each other, and all spend plenty of time together.

Jenna is the older of the two, fourteen going on twenty, with more energy than I can ever remember having myself at that age. It’s like she’s got a caffeine boost implanted in her skull or something.

The thought of her hurt and in the hospital makes me sick. “What happened to her? God, tell me that it didn’t happen while you were the one in charge.”

“I wasn’t, I just got the call. She was at Heather’s house,” explains Ashton. “I guess they were trying to climb this tree in Heather’s backyard, and they were challenging each other to see who could get highest, and Jenna went up on a branch that couldn’t hold her.”

“Shit, how high was she?”

“I don’t know, but she broke her ankle, and they’re having her x-rayed now to make sure that she didn’t mess anything up in her back,” says Ashton. He sinks back down into the teal hospital chair, shoving his face into his hands. “Never have kids, Dylan. They’ll kill you from the stress and heart pain before you ever get as old as dad.”

I sit down in the chair next to him, slinging an arm around his shoulder. “I’m sure that it’s going to be okay. There’s not much that that girl can’t bounce back from.”

Ashton lets out a watery laugh. “Heather says that Jenna won by a mile. She went up twice as high.”

“That sounds like Jenna. You're going to have to keep a tight grip on her, or else she’s going to develop some dangerous hobby like base jumping. Next thing you know, she's jumping off cliffs!”

Ashton shakes his head, “God, don’t tell me that!”

We sit there and discuss all the ways that Jenna is going to break her father’s heart and scare him to death for the next twenty minutes. The moment that the doctor comes out, Ashton jumps to his feet and hurries over to see what’s going on.

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