Blank Slate (True Identities Book 1) by Heather Justesen

Author:Heather Justesen [Justesen, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, sweet romance, clean romance, amnesia, construction,
Publisher: Jelly Bean Press
Published: 2014-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Gavin stayed at the bedside in the recovery room, then moved with Laura to her regular room. He half dozed in a chair while she slept, unwilling to leave her alone when such serious news was left to be explained. He couldn’t stand the thought of her waking alone and wondering where everyone was.

Two hours passed at a crawl as Gavin tried to sleep, but couldn’t manage it. He started trying to call the high school at six, and every ten minutes after that. Finally a human being picked up.

“Hi, this is going to sound like an odd question, but I need to reach a close friend of Laura Dunaway’s,” he jumped in.

“I don’t know who that is,” a woman said. “Is she a student?”

“No. She used to work there last fall, until that big bus accident.”

“Oh, right. Sorry, I . . . I’ll find someone who knew her.”

Gavin tried to be patient as his intestines tied themselves in knots. It wasn’t easy.

Finally someone else came on. “Laura doesn’t work here anymore.”

“I know that. I heard about her accident, I’m sure it was a terrible shock for everyone there. I need to contact a close friend of hers. Maybe a boyfriend?” That last phrase was hard to say, but he couldn’t ignore the possibility that she may have been dating someone. If so, better to know now.

“Why?”

“My girlfriend may have ended up with something important of hers in the accident.” It was only a half-fib. “I wanted to see that it got to someone who knew her well.”

There was a long pause. “Look, I don’t know if it’s much help, but there was this guy, Danny, Donny, Darren? I can’t remember. They were super tight. He’s a firefighter over on Madeline Avenue.”

“Thanks. I’ll try there.” As he hung up, Gavin thought he might puke up the breakfast sandwich he’d eaten an hour earlier. She’d been seeing someone. They were tight. She’d mentioned a guy named Danny. Was it the same guy?

He stood and paced across the room, lifting his fists above his head and resting them against the cold window facing the parking lot. His forehead followed suit and he enjoyed the cool feel of glass on his skin while he prepared himself for the possibility that she might belong with someone else just when things between them were starting to get interesting.

Drawing in a breath and telling himself to suck it up, he went in search of a phone book so he could call the fire station on Madeline Avenue.

When he learned Danny was out, Gavin weighed his options, then decided to track the man down himself after he had a chat with Laura. It would be better if he could size the man up himself before trusting him with Laura. Who knew what the man was really like?

Next he called Megan and filled her in. Jake had come home and gone straight to bed, not saying a word about anything. Gavin ached for his friend, but he didn’t know how to help, so he said goodbye to Megan, then walked back into the room where Laura slept.

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