My Whole World by Davidson King

My Whole World by Davidson King

Author:Davidson King [King, Davidson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-19T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter Twenty-Three

Atlas

“I have a list of songs requested by Sam Ramos and his fiancé.” Ledger handed me a clipboard. I wasn’t completely focused; half my mind was elsewhere. I kept checking my cell phone every five minutes to see the words, “He’s awake.”

“Hey.”

“Sorry, I’m trying to get my head in the game.” I read over the list; all the songs seemed fine. “Looks good. I trust you, Ledger. Why’d you feel the need to show me?”

“To get you out of your head.”

It was like someone was squeezing my heart. I wanted to be sitting right next to Toby and—

“You really fucking like this guy.” Ledger broke through my thoughts. “It’s about goddamn time you felt something for someone else. And it sucks a fuckload he’s in a hospital bed beat to shit. You wanna be there.” He wasn’t asking me; he knew. “Look, get out of here. We still have like four hours before the guests of honor arrive. Max and I can order people around until then. Go see him.”

He squeezed my shoulder, and my hand instinctively reached over and clung to it. “Thank you.”

I rushed out the back to my car, and halfway to the hospital, my cell rang. I hit the button on my steering wheel, bringing the call to my car speaker. “Yeah?”

“Atlas?” It was Desi.

“You called me. Don’t you know who you’re talking to?”

He chuckled. “Sorry, sounds weird.”

“You’re on speaker, I’m in my car on the way to the hospital. I want to be there when he wakes up, and I have four hours. So hopefully I won’t miss it.”

“Yeah, so, you missed it. He’s awake.”

I couldn’t even be mad. He was awake, and that was a good sign. “Good. I’ll be there in a minute.”

“Hold up.”

I stopped at a red light and listened. He told me how Vick was planning something with my party, and while that nearly had me turning my car around to get back to the club, thinking I’d catch whoever it was, it was the next words out of his mouth that made me freeze up.

“Atlas, Toby has been working for Vick in more than a staff way.”

“No.”

“Listen. I’m not sure he was working for him voluntarily. People like Vick Keller, they don’t give you many choices when it comes to doing things. He had to be holding something over Toby’s head.”

Horns blaring had me looking up. The light was green, but I didn’t move. Cars whizzed around me beeping, hollering.

“Atlas. Vick caught him lying. He wouldn’t give info on your party, but he knew already. Beat Toby for lying.”

“Shit.” The light was red again, so I took a second to calm down. I still wanted to see Toby, but I was messed up over this. Familiar emotions of a time long ago surfaced. But Toby wasn’t Joker. I knew that. I did.

“He doesn’t know you’re coming. Listen, Atlas, I have no idea what Vick is planning, but I don’t think you throw a morsel like a senator’s son at him and he ignores it.



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