Live Wire by Caisey Quinn

Author:Caisey Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-02-15T17:36:01+00:00

Eighteen

Vivien had no clue how everyone could discuss this so calmly. This was personal. This was a deadly criminal coming after Chase at his home. Leaving notes about her not coming back from the dead had been one thing, but blowing up Chase’s truck was a whole other level of insanity. It wasn’t just empty threats and fake explosives anymore.

They all gave their completely unhelpful statements to Luke before clearing out. Only Vivien stayed, curling up on the small uncomfortable excuse for a couch next to Chase’s hospital bed. She alternated dozing on and off with watching him sleep, smiling politely at the nurses who came in and out to take his vitals periodically.

For the first time, she knew exactly how he’d felt four years ago.

As she had watched his truck become an inferno before her very eyes, in those agonizing seconds before she’d seen him several feet away on the ground, everything she’d known and believed shifted irrevocably.

It was like having her entire life ripped away. Again.

There would be no coming to Nashville, getting the job done, and escaping unscathed. She was as scathed as it got, if there was even such a thing.

“What’s wrong, babe?” Chase’s groggy voice pulled her from her thoughts. She hadn’t realized he was awake.

“Just thinking,” she said softly while pulling the rough white hospital blanket up higher on his waist.

“About?”

She considered not telling him. He had enough to deal with after all. But they’d kept things from each other before and it hadn’t ever turned out well.

“About how I didn’t want to come here. How I thought you’d be better off if I stayed out of your life. Although, considering where we are, I might’ve been right about that last part.”

“You weren’t,” he said, meeting her gaze and sitting up as much as the current position of his bed would allow. “I’m glad you’re here, Viv. I’m glad it was me instead of you tonight. I don’t know what I would’ve done if—” He was interrupted by the loud beeping of the machine that measured his heart rate.

Vivien stood and moved closer to his bedside, sitting gently on the edge of the mattress in an effort to soothe him. She leaned down and stroked his forearm before interlacing her fingers with his.

The beeping stopped, but he didn’t finish his sentence.

“I don’t know what it means that I’m almost glad there was a threat to the city because it brought us back to each other. I think it means I’m a horrible human being,” she confessed.

Chase placed his hand in hers and pulled her in for a forehead kiss before maneuvering so that they were both lying in his hospital bed. “The circumstances might not be ideal—hell, they’re downright horrific—but we’re here now. Together. I wouldn’t change that for anything either.”

Vivien sighed. She had something for him, something she wasn’t even sure he wanted, but now seemed like the time to give it to him. “Chase . . .”

“Hmm?” He nuzzled against her so sweetly she almost wanted to tell him never mind.

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