Casual Encounter Vol. 5 by M. S. Parker

Author:M. S. Parker [Parker, M. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Belmonte Publishing LLC
Published: 2014-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

There was a crick in my neck. The first thought I had as I started to climb my way toward wakefulness didn't make any sense. Why did my neck hurt? Then I realized I was slumped over. My back bent and my head down, like I'd fallen asleep sitting up. Why would I have done that?

Even as I thought the question, everything came back in one excruciating rush. Cade telling me he loved me. Waking up with a note saying he'd be back. The hours of worrying. Arriving at the loft. Seeing the torn pictures. Then Cade on the bed with a man next to him. Realizing Cade wasn't breathing. Performing CPR. The ride to the hospital.

I was in the hospital, sitting next to a bed. I must've fallen asleep at some point while I waited for Cade to wake up.

Then I felt fingers tighten around mine and my heart stuttered. Cade.

I opened my eyes and looked up to find a pair of dark gray ones staring at me. Relief rushed through me so sharply that tears formed in my eyes. I grasped his hand tightly.

“Hey there, Sleeping Beauty.” His voice was weak, but it was there and that's what was important.

I threw myself at him, heedless of the wires and tubes connecting him to monitors and bags of whatever. I didn't care about any of that. I just had to have my arms around him, feeling him breathing, his heart beating. I pressed my face against his chest.

“I'm okay,” he whispered as he stroked my hair.

I didn't cry. Not really. A couple tears escaped, but that was all. I'd spent everything last night. Now, I was just exhausted. The little sleep I'd gotten was only enough to keep me from passing out, and this weariness wasn't just physical. Between everything that had happened the night before and then today, my emotions had taken me on a roller coaster ride like nothing I'd ever experienced before.

“Don't ever scare me like that again.” My voice was muffled against his chest.

“I won't,” Cade said. “Believe me.”

I let myself relax against him for a few more minutes, not wanting to break the silence with the questions I was trying to avoid. No need to create more drama. We'd had enough to last quite a while. I just wanted to listen to the steady beating of his heart, echoed by the beeping from the monitor. I couldn't even find the sound annoying. Not when it was reassuring me that he was okay.

“There are some things I need to tell you,” he said softly.

I sighed. Apparently my questions were going to be answered whether I wanted them to be or not. I could only hope I survived what he told me. I sat up and then back in my chair. Until I knew how this was going to go, I didn't trust myself to be touching him.

“But first I need to know what happened. How I got here.”

“Didn't the doctors tell you?” I asked.

He shook his head.

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