Her Counselor (Love Hack, #3) by Allyson Lindt

Author:Allyson Lindt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: submissive dominant BDSM spanking, second chance, rivals to lovers, friends to lovers, legal, office romance, corporate, geek love
Publisher: Acelette Press
Published: 2016-10-11T16:00:00+00:00

FOURTEEN YEARS AGO

Damon dug through his apartment, searching frantically for the cordless phone before it stopped ringing. He found it on the coffee table, under a scattered pile of newspapers with office jobs circled. “Hello?”

“Hey.” Vivian sounded faint, and the single word was strained.

That didn’t stop him from grinning at the sound of her voice. “Hi yourself, gorgeous. I thought you were working tonight. Not that I’m complaining.” In a few weeks, it wouldn’t matter. Her lease would be up, she’d move in, and with any luck, she’d have a job with better hours that was less physically demanding.

“I called in.” She sounded as if speaking took tremendous effort. “I don’t think I can drive. I’m dizzy, Damon. I think I need to go to the hospital. I’m bleeding a lot.”

He was already jerking on his shoes and grabbing his keys. His entire chest wrenched in on itself, until he thought his ribs might collapse. “Are you at home?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll be there in five minutes. Don’t move, okay? I love you, Vi.”

“Love you too.”

He disconnected and tossed the phone across the room, not caring it missed the couch and clattered to the ground. He sprinted to his car. It’d be all right. She’d be all right. Please?

The next couple of hours were the longest of Damon’s life—not that he remembered most of the details. Picking up Vivian. Wondering why he hadn’t told her to call an ambulance. Asking himself if they’d have gotten there any faster than he did. And then the waiting. Sitting in the almost empty emergency room, unable to focus on anything but the clock and the fact he couldn’t find anyone to give him answers.

Finally a nurse approached him. “Damon?”

He stopped pacing, but trapped his toes in his shoes. “That’s me.”

She nodded toward the door that had taunted him since they pushed Vivian through it in a wheelchair. “You can come back now.”

“Is she okay?”

The nurse gave him a weak smile. “Well enough to tell me you were probably waiting out here. She can explain everything else.”

He ground his teeth at the lack of an answer, but followed. Seconds later, she pointed him toward one of the small rooms at the back of a long hall. Vivian sat half-propped in the bed, face tired and pale, expression blank. She managed a weak smile when she saw him.

He crossed the room in a few long strides, and wrapped her in a hug. “I was so worried.” They didn’t have her hooked up to an IV or any other wires, except the monitor on her finger. That had to be a good sign. “Are you okay? They wouldn’t tell me anything.”

Her frame shuddered against his when she dragged in a breath. “They’re very careful with the information they give out about pregnancies. They leave it up to the mother to share what she wants.”

That made sense when he thought about it, which was a lot easier to do now he was holding her again. “You didn’t answer my question.”

She buried her head against his shoulder, and her voice came out muffled.

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