If I Fall (New Castle Book 2) by Lydia Michaels

Author:Lydia Michaels [Michaels, Lydia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bailey Brown Publishing
Published: 2017-12-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Jade awoke to deep, distant voices rumbling from the floor below. A gentle wash of disappointment had her frowning as her hand pressed into the cool side of the Jeremy’s bed.

What time is it?

Turning to see the clock, she realized she’d made two grave mistakes. One, sitting up too quickly, and two, it was only seven forty-five. As she rushed to the bathroom, she wondered who the hell made house calls at this hour.

After a lovely bout of morning sickness and almost peeing her pants—because puking took precedence over peeing—she took a shower and vigorously brushed her teeth. Retrieving her borrowed clothes from the night before, she dressed and pulled her hair into a haphazard ponytail.

It was almost December and her feet were freezing from the early morning chill. She found socks in a top drawer, exactly where she kept hers and snatched a pair. She also found something that should have been destroyed a long, long time ago—a tattered picture from high school of Jeremy, Kat, and herself.

He looked like he did now, only rail thin and too naive for his own good. Kat looked the epitome of innocence, which she was until she got pregnant a few months later. Jade smiled, her attention shifting to her younger self. She wore a cocky smirk like her shit didn’t stink—which it didn’t.

God, we were babies. Where did he get this?

Feeling like a snoop, she quickly placed the picture back at the bottom of the drawer and covered it with clothes. She pulled his way-too-large socks over her feet and padded into the hall. Pausing at the bottom of the stairs, she listened to the grate of baritone voices rumbling from the kitchen.

“I want it wired to all the windows and doors,” Jeremy said. “None of that key on, key off bullshit either. I want it so that if a door’s opened, it beeps until it’s shut.”

“Does she have any pets we need to work into the system?” A deeper voice asked.

“No, it’s just her. And if someone breaches the system I want to be notified the same time as the police.”

“You got it. A system like that isn’t cheap though, Jer.”

“I’ll handle it.”

Were they talking about her? The cottage? Feeling like she should be a part of this discussion, she stepped into the kitchen.

Jeremy was sitting with his back to her and a giant of a man was sitting across from him. Holy Goliath Batman.

She thought Jeremy was big. This guy could turn the chair supporting him into kindling. Every thread of his shirt looked ready to split as it stretched taut over his enormous, chiseled biceps. He was nothing but cut muscle.

Pitch black hair tucked behind his ears, dusting his shoulders, exposing a jagged scar down his neck which disappeared beneath the collar of his shirt. He was a gigantic broken beauty of a man—

“I can see why you’d want to protect her.”

Jade’s gaze snapped to his. Piercing blue eyes, trimmed with lashes so thick and dark they looked lined with coal, stared into her and she found it impossible to move.

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