Oblivion by Jessica Wood

Author:Jessica Wood [Wood, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

I pushed against the glass door that led out into the darkness. Tears streamed down my face at how quickly tonight had turned upside down. I could hear the happy chatter from our engagement party in the main hall before it was absorbed by the silence of the night as the door shut behind me.

I ran as fast as my feet could take me in my jeweled Yves Saint Laurent stilettos. Maybe I should stop wearing heels all the time, I thought as I wished for my lone pair of tennis shoes that were collecting dust in my walk-in closet.

But this didn’t slow me down. I wanted to get out of here. It was the last place I wanted to be.

“Liv!” I heard a familiar male voice call after me.

The sound of his voice pushed me to move faster. I pulled up the jewel-encrusted blush-pink evening gown that weighed down on my body and restricted my movement. The air was bitter cold and cutting, but the adrenaline that coursed inside seemed to shelter me from the cold like a protective blanket. I didn’t have to turn around to know who that was. All my senses went into overdrive as I continued to move.

“Liv!” he called after me again, this time closer than before.

I stopped briefly and turned to see him about fifty yards away at the entrance of the building.

His wide eyes were filled with guilt and alarm, frozen against the stark-white complexion of his face.

It was Connor.

I jolted up in bed in a layer of cold sweat that had soaked through my camisole. My chest heaved up and down as I tried to catch my breath. My body was stiff with tension as I looked around the room, and it took me several seconds to register where I was. I wasn’t standing outside in the middle of the night. I was lying in a warm, king-size bed. From the soft sunbeams that broke through the sheer, white curtains, I knew it was early morning.

“You’re up.” His smooth, gentle voice caused me to jump, and I felt my body freeze up as our eyes met. He was standing at the doorway of our bedroom with a tray in his hand.

“Hi,” I managed to say, as the images of my latest flashback were fresh in my mind.

“Baby, I want to apologize again about last night. I was an ass.” He motioned to the tray he was holding. “I made you your favorite breakfast in bed to say I’m sorry—French toast, over easy eggs, bacon, and strawberries.”

“Oh.” Confusion swirled inside me as I tried to reconcile between my flashback of Connor and the Connor who had woke up early this morning to make me breakfast in bed.

He placed the tray of food in front of me. “I also squeezed some fresh orange juice for you. I know how much you love fresh orange juice.”

“Thank you.” I met his kind gaze and saw nothing but the loving and sweet man that’d been there for me since the moment I woke up from my coma.

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