Ache by Kelly Favor

Author:Kelly Favor [Favor, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-12-17T02:50:01.851555+00:00

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Before Caelyn knew it, she was being discharged.

She couldn’t believe that she was finally out of the hospital.

It felt like forever that she’d been in that place, as if her previous life hadn’t even existed. But now she’d been released, and the freedom was something like what Elijah must have felt when he’d gotten out of jail.

As he drove her to their new home, a small two-bedroom house near the rehab center, Caelyn stared out the window at the passing scenery.

“Where’d you get the new car?” she asked.

He was driving her home in an old, battered pickup truck. The seats inside were frayed and there were old cigarette burns on the floor of the cab.

Elijah laughed. “I don’t think you want to know,” he said.

“Did your old car get totaled in the accident?”

He nodded. “I went to see it in the junk yard. It was smashed so bad that I couldn’t believe anyone had survived, let alone both of us.”

Caelyn looked at him. He was focused on the road, no sign of stress or anxiety on his face. “Elijah, what happened that day? Who shot you?”

He paused a long moment before responding. “I didn’t see where it came from,”

he told her. “I caught my brother in the hallway of that building and made him take me to his car to get the bag of cash that he had on him. The cash that he owed me from when he broke into my place.”

“Did he try and fight you?”

Elijah shook his head. “Maybe it was a setup. Maybe he was expecting it, because as we got to the parking lot, I heard shots fired and then I forced him into his car, grabbed the bag and took off. I didn’t even realize I was shot until I was halfway to my own car.”

Caelyn swallowed, her mouth suddenly dry. Just thinking about the accident made her physically ill. She remembered the dark stain spreading across his stomach.

The sound of the car as it hit the pole. The windshield folding in on itself.

She came back to the present as Elijah took a left turn, and she flinched, imagining an oncoming car plowing into them, but the car slowed down at the light.

Elijah glanced at her. “You okay?”

“Yeah,” she said, her heart racing and her hands shaking from the fear response.

“I think I’m still not all the way back to normal yet.”

“No shit,” he said, deadpan.

“Elijah!” she laughed, slapping him lightly on his muscular shoulder. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“It means you just got out of the hospital and you’ve got a lot of rehab to do before you’re going to feel one hundred percent.”

“And you’re an expert now?”

“I’ve read up on it,” he said, more serious suddenly.

“Oh, you have, have you?”

“I have. Yeah. And we need to take a practical, realistic approach to your recovery.” Now a little grin started around the corners of his mouth.

Caelyn shook her head and sighed. “So you must have spent a lot of money on this truck and the rental house.

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