Heavy (Heavy Hearts Book 1) by Sarah Jane Duncan

Author:Sarah Jane Duncan [Duncan, Sarah Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Jane Duncan (25 November 2020)
Published: 2020-11-25T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

The car pulling to a stop wakes me from sleep. With my fleece throw blanket still wrapped around my nakedness and my loss of memory of the car ride, I realise I must have passed out or fallen asleep not long after leaving Marcus and his sister by the side of the road.

“Hey, sleeping beauty.” Ayden’s warm voice draws my attention. The smile he wears isn’t fooling me. I can see past the small dimple and upward turn of his mouth, his eyes tell me the truth. He’s worried.

“What’s wrong?” The hoarseness of my voice sounds like I’m a pack-a-day smoker, and its scratchiness feels like I’ve swallowed razor blades.

The ordinarily confident exterior of Ayden Mitchell looks anything but right now, with the way his shoulders slump and his eyes dance away from the left side of my battered face.

“I’m worried about you, Lex. I don’t know if I should have let you fall asleep. You probably have a concussion given how bad…” he shakes his head, unable to finish.

“I’m okay now that I’m with you.” That makes him smile, almost as if he’d needed to hear me say those words.

A man appears outside the car on Ayden’s side, and I startle, gasping. Ayden quickly turns to spot the man, and his shoulders relax.

“It’s okay, Lex, it’s my dad.” Reaching out, Ayden gives my hand a gentle squeeze, “Be right back.”

He slips out of the car, talking quietly with his dad. The seriousness in their expressions worries me as they discuss something before Ayden walks around the car to open my door. He leans in, giving me one of his winks again before lifting me in his arms, while his dad grabs my bag from the back seat.

“I can walk, you know?” My attempt to protest comes out more like a question than a statement. I actually have no clue if I can walk on my own because only a few hours ago, I couldn’t.

“I know, but I need to do something to help.”

What does he mean? He has already helped so much. Doesn’t he know that? I should make a big deal about it, except I know this isn’t the time or place.

We walk through a relatively empty underground parking garage. The few cars that are here scream “money.” I haven’t had a chance to look properly at Ayden’s dad yet, but what I did see of him wasn’t enough to tell me that he comes from the type of wealth to match the cars parked in here.

Taking the lift, we are all silent in the small space as we start to ascend. The awkward silence reminds me that I’m putting an awful lot of trust in a guy I only met days earlier. Ayden has driven me somewhere. He said he was taking me to the city to his dad’s, but I have no memory of the trip, and all I’ve seen so far is the concrete walls of a parking garage. Now, I am travelling in

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