My Only Desire by Adrianne Byrd

Author:Adrianne Byrd
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2011-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Charles Masters Junior was born at 12:01 p.m. in the back of Taariq’s brand-new Mercedes-Benz. However, the owner of said vehicle was passed out on the side of the road while Junior’s mother and aunt worked together to bring him into the world. A few minutes afterward, an ambulance pulled up and the paramedics took over.

Anna raced behind the paramedics as they wheeled two gurneys through the emergency room. This day couldn’t have been more bizarre. She halfway expected Ashton Kutcher to jump out somewhere at any minute. However, that was highly unlikely.

“Ma’am, why don’t you just stay with your husband for now? It’s going to be a few minutes before we can get your sister and new nephew cleaned up.”

“Husband?” Anna glanced down at Taariq lying on the gurney and then gave a short chuckle. “Oh, he’s not my husband.”

Taariq moaned and pressed a hand to his head. “Where am I?”

Anna rolled her eyes so hard it was amazing that they didn’t fall out of her head and hit the floor. “We’re at the hospital. No thanks to you.” She glanced back up to talk to the nurse, but she was gone.

“What?” Taariq popped open his eyes and propped himself up on his elbows to take a good look around. “What happened?”

“What do you think happened? You fainted.”

“Get out of here.” He swung his legs over the side of the gurney and attempted to get up. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Anna lifted her brows and folded her arms. “So you think that you magically appeared at the hospital. Is that it?” The horror twisting Taariq’s face was comical and Anna probably would have laughed if she wasn’t so concerned about her baby sister that she hardly cracked a smile. How people believed that women were the weaker sex was beyond her. When he failed to come up with a response, she turned up her nose. “Well, thanks for nothing.”

“Whoa. Hold up.” Taariq hopped off the gurney. “I helped.”

She leveled a get real look at him.

His mouth fell open when he realized that she was not about to give him any credit for the nightmarish hell he’d been through today. “Okay,” he said calmly. “Maybe I did sort of choke when it was crunch time, but I wasn’t expecting to see—” Taariq felt bile rise in his throat “—what I saw.”

At the sight of him turning a puke-green, Anna shook her head. “Maybe you should lie back down. You don’t look so good.”

Taariq pressed a hand against his stomach. “I don’t feel so hot, either.”

Mildly concerned, Anna pressed a hand against his forehead, which didn’t turn out to be such a good idea because it was like putting her hand into a roaring fire. The moment their skin touched, she had to snatch it back and even then her hand suffered from an invisible third-degree burn.

What the hell?

Whatever it was she was fairly certain that Taariq felt it as well because he was staring at her as if she’d suddenly sprouted two extra heads.

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