What the Heart Sees by Ileana Lallain

Author:Ileana Lallain [Lallain, Ileana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64405-964-7
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16:

ETHAN CRINGED and held the phone away from his ears as a high noise cut him off. He couldn’t identify it or the other sharp noises that followed.

“Zach, are you okay?”

He cautiously brought the phone to his ear.

“Oh my God!” “Was someone hit?” “Oh God, is he okay?” “Somebody call an ambulance!”

The tangle of voices on the other end melted into one another, yet somehow Ethan managed to hear them clearly enough for his body to freeze.

Zach? His mouth formed the word, but no sound came out.

“Someone got hit by a car!” This voice was clearest of all, a high female voice tinged with panic. “Please hurry! I’m on Millard Street between the intersections of Alliss Avenue and Howard Street. Hurry, please, I don’t think he’s breathing!”

Zach?

“Oh my God oh my—”

The call failed.

Ethan sat on his bed, phone to his ear, listening to the repetitive disconnect sound. Tears sprang to his eyes, but he couldn’t understand why. A single one traced the outline of his cheek.

Why would he be sad? Zach was supposed to arrive soon, right?

“Zach?” he asked the dead call. Ethan couldn’t tell whether his heart was beating faster or had stopped altogether. Did he remember how to breathe? Where were his hands and feet? A tingling sensation took them away.

Something dropped beside him on the bed and the constant disconnect tone stopped stabbing his eardrums.

“Hey, Siri,” a voice said. It trembled, like the rest of Ethan’s body. “Give me the address of the hospital closest to the intersection of Howard Street and Millard Street.” He made a mental note, then thanked Siri with a hollow voice, dropping his empty hand into his lap.

A second passed in utter stillness, and then Ethan leaped to his feet, snatching his phone back up. He cleared his room in a heartbeat and was already half sprinting down the hallway before his door had fully opened. Something ensnared his feet, tripping him, but he didn’t let himself fall. He reached for the closest thing—a doorknob—and used it to keep him upright.

The pressure he put on it broke the knob, but he didn’t care because he was up again. He tossed the object behind him down the hallway, distantly hearing it clatter as he screamed, “Stacy!”

He crashed into the kitchen. No smell of baking. No humming. No aunt.

In the living room, he fell over the top of the couch, rolling off and smacking his head on the floor. He felt no pain as he scrambled back up to his feet and called out for his aunt again.

Then came the realization.

She left a while ago. Errands.

He didn’t have a plan in mind as he ran into the corridor outside his apartment and smashed face-first into the door across the way. Ethan knocked frantically on the wood, legs numb and trembling.

The door opened, but his hand kept moving, kept trying to knock, to get attention. His voice sped faster than his brain could process. “Take me to the hospital on Dixon Road. I think my boyfriend got into an accident.

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