Never Moving On: A Friends to Lovers Romance (Never U Series) by C. R. Lee

Author:C. R. Lee [Lee, C. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C. R. Lee Books
Published: 2023-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

twenty-five

Just When You Think You Know Somebody...

Stella

I can’t believe I’m here waiting for Jacob. What does all this mean? Are we together now? I mean, if he had sex with me to ignore me again, I will literately kick his ass or set Kat on him. That chick is crazy. I’m starting to think Emma might have a few screws loose as well. She was downright giddy watching her sister go after Dean.

My phone buzzes in my back pocket. I glance at the clock. Who the hell is calling me at seven-thirty in the morning? I pull out my phone, fully prepared to rip whatever telemarketer had the audacity to ring me at this time a new one. But when I check the caller ID, instead of seeing the ubiquitous “Unknown Caller,” it’s Emma’s name on my screen.

And now I’m worried. Nothing short of a full-scale alien invasion would get her up before nine.

“Hello.”

“Oh, thank God,” Emma says, between panting breaths. “Kat’s got the car and she’s not answering her frigging phone, and I need to get to my mom’s like right now, and I’m starting to panic.”

“Okay. Calm down. I’ll be there in five minutes.”

“Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I’ll be waiting out front.”

We hang up and I shoot a quick text to Jacob telling him that Emma had an emergency, and I’ll have to meet him at school. Then I throw on my sneakers, grab my keys, and go. Emma never talks about her mom—her dad, sure—but I don’t think I’ve heard more than two words about her mother since we met. It’s obviously a sore subject, so I don’t bring it up. If she’s swallowed her pride enough to ask me for help with her, it has to be really bad.

I pick up Emma, and she directs me to a trailer park on the outskirts of town. And when I say trailer park, I don’t mean one of those places where people mostly keep their areas clean, and you might see some pots of flowers here and there. Nope. This place is a total shithole—and that’s probably putting it nicely. There is trash everywhere—everything from rusted bikes to fast-food wrappers. The area is so overgrown, it would take a hack saw to free some of these trailers from the weeds and ivy entangling them. Many of the trailers look deserted, their windows or steps broken, their walls crumbling. One trailer is actually lying in a heap on its side. I can’t even imagine the story about how that happened. We rumble down the gravel road winding through the center of the park, coming to a stop in front of a rusted beige trailer, I might have thought was abandoned as well, were it not for the woman lying sprawled across the steps.

Emma’s mom. Jesus.

Emma practically leaps out of the car, and I follow. “Is she alright?” I ask.

“I don’t know,” she replies, her voice low but gritty like she swallowed sand. She crouches beside her mom and rolls her onto her back.

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