Dark Truth by Cooper Summer

Author:Cooper, Summer [Cooper, Summer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2019-05-20T05:00:00+00:00

Emily

“Roxie has a boyfriend,” I said that night as Dylan and I changed the bed linen. “She’s really happy.”

I’d had the other woman on my mind since she’d left earlier in the day. I really was happy for her and wanted her to experience what I’d found with Dylan. Alright, our beginning hadn’t exactly been perfect, we’d struggled against each other, but we’d finally come to terms with who we were and what we needed to do.

That hadn’t been easy, but we’d managed it. We still had an issue or two to work through, I thought as I felt a pang of hunger growl in my stomach, but I thought we could handle it all. Together, we could handle most things.

Dylan had shown me that as he accepted my family into his life. He didn’t have to do that; he could have just dismissed them, refused to meet with them, and refused to allow my sisters-in-law to come here. He’d known I needed my family and had not only accepted it, but made an effort to be part of that group of people.

It mattered to me, I thought as I smoothed a flat sheet over the fitted sheet and then reached for the pillows.

“Oh? That’s great. Is he a boyfriend-boyfriend or an Elmo’s-boyfriend?” I knew he wasn’t judging Roxie, just curious. He looked up at me, his eyes curious and I thought, not for the first time, how handsome he was.

It made my heart squeeze sometimes, when I looked at him. It was love, I knew that, but still, we hadn’t said those words. One day, we would. Maybe not tonight. I remembered he’d asked me about Roxie’s new boyfriend after a moment and made a goofy face at myself.

“Sorry, you distracted me with that handsome face of yours. He’s a real boyfriend. You should see how she looks when she talks about him.” I sighed and pulled a pillow into a pillowcase. “She looks like a fairy princess or something.”

“You always look like that, Emily. Or like a little nymph.” He came over to my side and grabbed me to tickle me. With a laugh of joy, we fell to the bed. Only Dylan wasn’t laughing when we hit the mattress.

In fact, he was very, very quiet. I turned around and pushed him back, afraid that I’d somehow hurt him. “Dylan? What’s wrong?”

“Emily, my…” He looked terrified, and his hand gripped at his leg frantically. His eyes caught mine, and I could see stark fear in their depths. “I can’t feel my legs.”

“What?” I was too stunned to take it in or panic too much. He couldn’t feel his legs? Why not? What had I done? “What have you done?”

“It’s, fuck, call an ambulance, darling. Hurry, please.” He fell back against the bed, his face scrunched with some emotion, fear, pain, I didn’t know, I just knew he’d asked for an ambulance, and he wouldn’t joke about that.

I picked up my phone but urgency suddenly made my fingers misdial 911 two times before I got it right.

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