Possessive Neighbor (A Neighbors Novel Book 1) by KL Donn

Author:KL Donn [Donn, KL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KL Writes
Published: 2020-09-21T18:30:00+00:00

7

Hope

“How did it go?” Luca’s voice echoes in my car as I drive to the grocery store. Lunch with Reed went far better than I imagined.

“It was good.”

“Did you tell him?” Luca has been on me all morning to explain my secrets to Reed, and he’s right. But I can only confess so much at once.

Sucking in a sharp breath, I prepare for him to give me heck. “I told him about the alexithymia.”

“But not the baby?” he growls.

“No, Luca. Not the baby. I didn’t want to do that in a public place. That’s not an easy thing to tell someone, you know.”

“He needs to know, Hope. The longer you wait, the angrier he’ll be.”

“Are you mad at me?” I shake my head in confusion because Luca didn’t want me to have anything to do with Reed last week.

“No.” He pauses. “I just don’t think it’s fair that either of you gets emotionally invested if this could be the thing to break you up.”

Great. Now I’m nervous again. “You’re right.” I mumble the words as I stop at a red light, trying to brush the tears out of my eyes with my sleeve. “I never should have spoken to him.”

“Hopeless, dammit, that’s not what I meant.”

“But it’s true. Why would he want me with another couple's baby anyways?” The sound of horns blaring catches my attention just in time to glance to the right as an uncontrollable car comes speeding my way. “Luca!” I scream at the impact.

Glass shatters.

Pain explodes in my skull as it hits the window.

“Hope!” I can hear my brother holler through a distance. “Hopeless, talk to me!”

“The baby, Luca.” I whisper the words as my eyes grow heavy. A thick fog is taking over my brain as I hear voices asking if I’m alright and telling me not to move. “Luca…”

“I’m calling, Reed,” he says, and I can hear him speaking frantically, but nothing is registering except agony.

My head, my arm, hip.

The baby.

She’s all I can think about as I hear sirens growing closer.

“Reed’s on his way, kid. I’ll meet you at the hospital.” Luca sounds…scared? “Hope, you still with me?”

My eyelids lift enough for me to glimpse the carnage of my once new SUV and the grill of a car embedded in the passenger side.

“The baby,” I whisper again.

“She’ll be fine, kid. So will you.” He doesn’t sound very sure.

When I feel fingers probing at my head, I scream from the pain. “Whoa, ma’am, my name is Torque Decker, I’m a fireman. Just trying to assess you for when the paramedics arrive. Can you tell me your name?”

When I attempt to look at him, there are two heads. “Did you know you have two heads?” He chuckles, and his smile is cute.

“Your name, darlin’.”

“The baby,” I murmur. My fear ramps up as a crowd begins to form. “You have to save her.”

“Where is she?” He begins to look in the back seat when I shake my head, trying to tell him.

“Luca?” I call my brother’s name.

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