Monster by Holly C. Webb

Author:Holly C. Webb [Webb, Holly C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Ally

“Welcome home, Sweetheart,” Jacob said, glancing over as we came to a stop outside our front door. He turned off the engine before he turned in his seat to face me. “Are you feeling okay?”

“Yes,” I replied, giving him a smile that I didn’t feel. The truth was, this house was the last place I wanted to be, but where else could I go without causing a huge fuss. So, I decided to smile and suck it up like I always did. “Of course.”

“Your mother insisted on cooking lunch,” Jacob continued with a smile, and I knew he was trying his best to make me happy. I also knew that having my folks here in the house was most likely driving him crazy, but he was acting like the dutiful husband and son-in-law. “My parents would have been here too, but they are still in the Far East.”

“I’m sure,” I replied, smiling once more, but I knew that he was just saying what he thought I wanted to hear. Jacob’s parents weren’t exactly the doting kind. Jacob had been living alone since he left for college. Not that they didn’t care about Jacob, they did, sometimes too much, but always about the wrong thing. Jacob had been raised with one goal in mind; he was going to be someone important, and if his mother had her way, he would be the most important someone there was. He would one day be the president of the United States.

“You’ve been awfully quiet since we left the hospital,” Jacob continued as he reached over and softly touched my face where he had hit me and released a sad sigh. “You’re still mad at me, aren’t you?”

“I’m not anything,” I shrugged, knowing that wasn’t strictly true, but what was going on inside my head was not something I could ever talk to Jacob about. I gave him a smile before I added. “Well, I’m tired, and my head hurts, but that’s about it.”

“You would tell me if there was something on your mind?” He asked, giving me a worried look.

“Of course,” I lied once more. Jacob was the last person I could talk to about how I was feeling. In fact, there was no one I could turn to and tell them just how unhappy I truly was.

The last twenty-four hours had all been such a blur of people and faces that I didn’t know if I was coming or going. Even Travis stopped by my room to check in on me, which I was so grateful for.

The only person who didn’t turn up was the one person I had wanted to see more than anything.

Jaxson.

I’d wanted to ask Jacob where he was, but I knew that the moment I mentioned him, Jacob would see straight through me. He would know I had feelings for Jaxson, and everything would fall apart.

While I was in the hospital, every time the door opened to my room, I would hold my breath, waiting for Jaxson to come by, and each time my heart broke a little more when it wasn’t him.

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