True To You (Taking Chances #2) by Liwen Ho

Author:Liwen Ho [Ho, Liwen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 2 Square 2 Be Hip
Published: 2015-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

My luck’s finally run out.

Not that Ben believed in luck. It wasn’t because of luck that he was home the night the highway patrol officer knocked on their door. He would forever be thankful that he, and not his sister, had received the news first about their parents. That news, however, had caused him to doubt God’s plans and purposes for years… until that fateful day at the store. God wouldn’t have brought Melanie into his life for nothing, would He? Then why had their evening turned into such a wreck?

Ben tightened his grip on the handlebars of the motorcycle. He wove in and out of traffic, releasing his adrenaline each time he shifted gears to accelerate. He had rode five blocks before the sting in his eyes woke him up to a sobering fact. He didn’t have his helmet on.

And that helmet happened to be sitting under his chair at Koo’s Kitchen.

The only thing worse than returning to the place of his humiliation was imagining his sister’s teary face if she found out he was riding recklessly. Going against his better judgment, he made a U-turn at the next intersection. He figured he could call Melanie outside the restaurant and ask her to bring his belongings out to him. It would also provide him the chance to follow-up on the damage he had caused.

He approached a yellow light and slowed down, choosing to err on the side of caution. The wail of a siren reached his ears a few seconds before he spotted the ambulance half a mile away. The light changed and he sped up, closing the distance between himself and the emergency vehicle. He tailed the ambulance for another block until it stopped in front of a building with Chinese lettering on the signage.

No, please, no. Ben parked his bike and hopped off just as two uniformed men ran into Koo’s Kitchen, their medical bags and a stretcher in tow. Through the glass doors he watched as the paramedics took Mrs. Koo’s vitals, then loaded her onto a cot. The family followed the paramedics through the front doors, which Ben had propped open.

Melanie finished detailing her mother’s medical history as the stretcher was loaded onto the ambulance. “My father will ride with you,” Melanie informed the paramedics. “Please hurry.” Turning to her sisters, she gestured for them to follow her. “Let’s go. We’ll take my car.”

“No, you girls come with me. My driver is parked in back. Come.”

“Are you sure?”

“Of course. We are like family.”

“M goi. I appreciate it, Ming.”

Ben’s heart sank when he heard the two voices speaking a mix of Cantonese and English. He leaned around the doorframe from where he stood in the shadows to get a better look. The sight of Melanie leaning on the Hong Kong star’s shoulder confirmed his worst fears.

She had found comfort in a man’s arms, and they weren’t his.

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