Dirty Business: A Billionaire Romance (The Ironwood Billionaire Seiries Book 2) by Ellie Danes

Author:Ellie Danes [Danes, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Billionaire romance
Published: 2018-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Jace

I didn't know what was going through my mind as I raced away from the ball. Well, that wasn't quite accurate—I knew, but pinpointing any specific emotion was difficult, as it seemed that they were all bleeding into one another. There was fear, panic, anger, disbelief, anxiety, sadness—all rolled into one terrible mess.

All that I could hope for now was that the injuries weren't too bad—and that Matthew hadn't hurt anyone else but himself in this car accident. Damage to vehicles was one thing; we could easily afford to pay for whatever had been broken to be fixed, even with the expensive cars (and thus, the expensive parts and labor) we each drove.

But human bodies were another thing. They weren't machines that could just be restored to good as new condition by a skilled mechanic. If he had done some serious damage to himself—or someone else—those would be consequences he would be dealing with for the rest of his life.

I jumped into my Maserati, fired up the motor and took off at speed, spinning the wheels and getting the rear of the car fishtailing with the abrupt, brutal surge of power.

“You'd better be okay, Matthew,” I muttered under my breath as I raced through the streets at breakneck speed. “You'd better be okay, man, you'd better be all right.”

It took me around twenty minutes to get to the hospital, and I managed to find a parking spot easily enough, thankfully. I raced to the ER, where I asked the first nurse I saw about Matthew.

“He's this way,” said the nurse. “Come, follow me.”

She led me briskly through the ER until we got to a bed at the very end. And there he was—lying in the bed, with tubes coming out of him. The whole left side of his face was badly swollen, and his left arm was bandaged. He seemed to be unconscious.

“Oh, my God,” I murmured as shock hit me with the force of a tsunami. “Oh, my God, Matthew, oh my God.”

“I'll get the doctor who attended to him to come over and speak to you,” the nurse said. “Wait here please.”

I nodded, feeling utterly numb and totally rocked with shock. I couldn't stop staring at him, and it was like it wasn't real, as if I were in some sort of nightmare that I couldn't wake up from.

After a while—maybe a few seconds, maybe a few minutes, I don't know—a voice started to speak near me. I turned around and saw a young doctor standing to my left.

“Dr. Lee,” he said, extending a hand to me, which I shook.

“Hi, Dr. Lee, I'm Everett Cooper.”

“Mr. Cooper,” he said, his voice stern and severe, “as you can see, your friend here is not in very good condition.”

“What—what happened?” I managed to ask.

“Drunk driving,” he said, shaking his head. “He hit a tree at very high speed. You'll have to speak to the officer who got to the scene first for more specific details, but it seems that he was speeding, and he lost control of the vehicle.

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