The Demon's Forbidden Passion by Zoey Williams

Author:Zoey Williams [Williams, Zoey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781460317907
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

When Tina woke up to her alarm an hour later, her head was pounding and her bed was cold...and empty. She tapped the clock off and bolted upright, searching the room around her. But the moment she sat up the ache in her head intensified into a sharp pain, as if a butcher knife cleaved the front of her skull in two. She blinked a few times, trying to shake the heaviness of sleep from her eyes, but her vision was blurred.

“Ethan?” she asked groggily. There was no response, no sounds of the shower running or breakfast cooking to greet her, only her headache pulsing harder in her ears.

She called his name again. Even the sound of her own speech aggravated her headache further. But her physical pain was quickly replaced with devastation when she realized that Ethan was nowhere to be found. He had slipped out sometime while she was sleeping.

Tears of embarrassment and mortification stung her eyes. The first time I open myself up to someone, the first time I let my guard down, and this is what it gets me? He said he’d go to the hospital with her in the morning. He’d promised.

You can mess with me all you like, but don’t jerk around the emotions of a five-year-old kid, she thought resentfully.

She threw on some clothes, popped double the recommended dose of aspirin and headed to the hospital. She’d gone into work under worse circumstances before; a migraine wasn’t going to make her call in sick. If he wasn’t going to go and see that sweet Danny, she was. Her promise to get Ethan to come with her was out of her hands. She hoped Danny would forgive her; she knew the look of disappointment on his face would be enough to send her over the edge.

She drove there in silence, replaying the night before in her mind. Did I do something...say something...? But all she could think of was her and Ethan’s naked bodies tangling in the sheets, the way he looked at her with something in his eyes that was more than desire, something deeper. The way he rubbed the small of her back as she fell asleep. What had gone wrong?

She was still agonizing over the question when she looked at the master chart and saw that Danny wasn’t in a normal room, but the ICU. Confused, she jogged to the east wing of the hospital. When she found his bed, she gasped. Gus was standing over the boy, who was out cold, as he attached an IV into the back of his tiny hand. A bag of what looked like morphine dripped silently nearby.

Tina’s mind began to spin. Besides the burn, Danny had been fine when he left in the ambulance. All of his vitals were textbook, he was sitting up and talking without any problems. And now he was laid up in bed, the starchy white sheet pulled up to his chin, on pain meds. The boy, who was already small, now looked frighteningly gaunt, like he’d lost ten pounds overnight.

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