Unforgettable (Always Book 2) by Lexxie Couper

Author:Lexxie Couper [Couper, Lexxie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 5x5 Publishing
Published: 2020-02-12T18:30:00+00:00

Ten

Go, Robby. Yay

“Does Amanda know?”

Parker hesitated again.

“Have you told her, doc?”

“No.”

The heavy weight crushing me to the ground grew heavier. I leaned against the metal rail, for a moment incapable of supporting myself. Around me, people continued to go on as if nothing was wrong in the world – laughing, smiling, enjoying life. In the distance, the rollercoaster screamed down its main drop, the passengers wailing with delight. I gripped my phone and stared at the structure, the rises and falls and abrupt turns . . .

“Is she at the hospital?” I asked Parker. The afternoon sun beat down on me, drying the sweat on my skin until I felt like I was wrapped in taut plastic.

“I was in Tanner’s room five minutes ago,” he answered, his tone apologetic, “and she wasn’t there. Her sister was. She and Tanner were playing Transformers. Chase does a very good Megatron.”

A weak chuckle escaped from me. Nothing like any sound I’d made before.

“Chase told me she sent Amanda back to her apartment,” Parker went on. “To get some rest, eat some food that wasn’t from the hospital cafeteria.”

“Okay.” I pushed myself from the rail, the ocean to my back, and began walking. “Thanks, doc.”

“He’s a fighter, Brendon,” Parker said, the apology in his voice replaced with determination. “One of the toughest kids I’ve met. We will find a match. I promise.”

I nodded. A strange sense of being detached from everything rolled through me. “I have to go.”

“I’m calling Amanda now. Normally I’d ask her to come into the hospital for this kind of news, but if you’re going where I think you’re going—”

“I am.” Yes, I was going to Amanda’s place. I wanted to be there for her. To give her my strength . . . if she wanted it. The reason she’d called me, the reason she’d wanted me here was to save our son. To be a bone marrow match. And I wasn’t a match. I couldn’t save him.

I stopped walking. Crippled by the cruel blow life had delivered. I couldn’t save our son. What was the point of me, if I couldn’t save our—

“Brendon?” Parker’s sharp voice sounded in my ear. “Come on, dude. You’re stronger than this. I know you are. I wouldn’t have told you over the phone if I didn’t know that.”

I made some kind of noise. I don’t know what it was, or what it was trying to say. What was my fucking reason for being if I couldn’t save Tanner?

“Brendon, do me a favor,” Parker said. “Right now, standing out there on the sidewalk, do me a solid, okay?”

“What’s that?”

“Take whatever hand isn’t holding the phone and put it on your shoulder. Are you doing that?”

I blinked.

“C’mon, dude, put your hand on your shoulder for me,” Parker ordered.

I did as he asked, reaching up with my left hand to cup my bunched deltoid. It was hard and hot beneath my palm. Dense. How many shoulder presses and delt raises had I done in my life

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