Saving Emily by Shandi Boyes

Author:Shandi Boyes [Boyes, Shandi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

13

“Was it you or him?” interrogates a stern female voice I don’t recognize from the doorway almost twenty minutes later.

When I twist to face the voice, my throat works hard to swallow. Delilah is standing in the entranceway of Noah's room. Her arms are crossed in front of her chest, and she's glaring at me.

“Was what me or him?”

Her anger is unmissable when she spits out, “The marriage license?” She turns a piece of paper around to face me. It is a copy of the marriage license I filed weeks ago.

“It was me,” I admit, ignoring the way her stalking frame has my insides quivering. She scares me, but not enough to stop me from protecting what Noah and I have as I should have months ago. “We want to get married.”

The disdain in Delilah’s eyes turns deadly. “You stupid little bitch! You knew Noah agreed to remain attainable to his fans, yet you still applied for a marriage license.” Her roar bounces off the white-washed walls before shrilling into my ears. “A marriage license is public knowledge. That means when someone googles Noah’s name, it pops up in the internet search.”

“I’m sorry,” I apologize, my lips shaking with an equal amount of anger and fear. “I didn’t realize they were public record.”

Although I don’t appreciate her vicious verbal attack, I won’t tell her that. Delilah honestly scares me. My heart is racing a million miles an hour as she towers over me in her black pantsuit to glare at me with pure hate in her eyes.

“If he weren't visiting you, he wouldn’t be in that hospital bed,” she grinds out through gritted teeth as her evil eyes bounce between Noah and me. “And I wouldn’t be forced to make up pathetic stories just to ensure his name never gets linked to your worthless self.” Delilah’s hissed rant confirms what Jacob and I suspected. She started the rumor about Noah being in rehab. “You’re nothing but a pathetic—”

My head snaps to the side quicker than my hand rises to silence Delilah when a male voice yells, “That’s enough, Delilah!”

Delilah balks, stunned by another presence, but her eyes remain narrowed in thin slits.

“This has gone too far. Leave her alone!”

When Delilah spins on her heels to face the person accosting her, I become aware of who's defending me. Cormack is standing in the doorway. His hands are thrust in the pockets of his trousers, and his eyes are locked on Delilah's.

Delilah stumbles out an excuse about how she’s only doing her job before she storms out of the room, bumping into Cormack on her way out. Cormack bombards me with silent apologies for several seconds before he adds words into the mix.

“I’m sorry. This won’t happen again,” he assures me before he exits the room without so much of a backward glance.

To calm the rapid beat of my heart, I inhale many big breaths. It does little to ease my agitation. After standing from Noah's bed, I pace his hospital room while running my confrontation with Delilah through my blurry mind on repeat.

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