Rainbow Desire by Alice Renaud

Author:Alice Renaud
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay, anthology, short stories, lesbian, romantic, transgender, contemporary romance, lgbtq, multi author anthology, rainbow desire
Publisher: Black Velvet Seductions Publishing Company

Chapter Three

A few days later, Wes was staring at Ashlynn, who sat in a wheelchair across the bed from his sister, Jessie. His parents flanked him, resting their hands on his shoulder, showing that they didn’t blame him. Yet they should. If he’d only paid attention and put his safe driving skills to use, they would never be in this place. They would never be in the position where…where…

Oh God.

He was the one who’d killed his sister. All he’d had to do was look left and right before entering the intersection. He shouldn’t have cared that the light was green. He should have slowed down. Looked. Checked. Done something. Damn it!

They shouldn’t be here. Ashlynn shouldn’t be here. And it was beginning to look like Justin would have to give up his career because of the freaking accident. A deep ache filled Wes’s soul. It was like a black shadow covering every corner of his being, sucking away any joy he had.

“It’s time,” the nurse said, walking up to the foot of the bed.

“Can’t we wait just a little longer? She might wake up,” his mother begged, her face wet with tears that wouldn’t stop flowing.

“This was what she wanted, Jules,” his dad said gruffly, pulling his wife tight against his side and dropping a kiss on the top of her grey-haired head. Jessie was an organ donor and had previously told them she didn’t want machines keeping her alive. She had wanted the end of her life to mean something.

“But she’s my baby. Please, just a little longer,” his mother cried as she sat down beside Jessie, pressing her forehead against her daughter’s. “Jessie? Sweetheart? Please… please come back to me.” Sobs racked his mother’s body as she clung to her daughter.

Wesley’s chest tightened, and he struggled to catch his breath. His mother’s pain hit him like a ricocheting bullet that broke into a thousand pieces on impact. He gripped the collar of his shirt, pulling it away from his neck. And, in a mad panic, his gaze darted around the room before falling on the one person he knew could help him.

Ashlynn.

He needed to focus on her.

And it would appear she needed to focus on him, too. Her eyes never strayed from his face. “I’m sorry,” she whispered. He nodded, unable to speak, his throat clogged. This was really happening. It wasn’t a dream or a movie. It was real life.

The police had declared it to be the other driver’s fault, but he couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something more he could have done. He knew Justin certainly thought so. He hadn’t spoken to Wesley since that day, not like a brother normally would.

The accident played over and over in Wesley’s mind. Maybe if he wouldn’t have froze at such a crucial moment, he could have turned the wheel and the guy wouldn’t have hit the back side of the car where his sister had been sitting. The screams. The cries. The twisting of metal. The flipping of the car and seeing his sister hit the window would forever be seared into his head.

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