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PROLOGUE
“You’re listed as anemergency contact.”
Katrina Carter held the phone up to her ear with an unsteady hand.
Emergency contact.
“His condition is critical.”
Critical.
Lorenzo Cade hadn’t been a part of her life for nearly ten years, not since he’d taken off before high school graduation. Before that, though... oh, before that he’d been her best friend. Her confidante.
Her everything.
And he’d shattered her heart.
“Where...” She cleared her throat and sat in the chair beside her, tried to control her shaking. “Which hospital is this?”
“Montgomery Central.”
She couldn’t stop the gasp that escaped her as she pressed the fingers of her free hand to her trembling lips.
He’d come back.
He’d come back.
But why?
“Ms. Carter—"
“I’m on my way.”
CHAPTER 1
Please don’t die, pleasedon’t die, please don’t die...
Those words repeated in Katrina’s head, reverberating as she gently pushed a lock of Lorenzo’s dark hair back from his forehead. His eyes remained closed through her touch, through the beeping machines, through the bustle of the medical personnel in the hallway. No amount of her willing him to open them would make it happen, Katrina knew this, but it didn’t stop her from leaning down, placing a gentle kiss on his rust-stained cheek and whispering in his ear.
“I’m here, Ren. I’m here. Just open your eyes for me, okay?”
Nothing.
Not even a twitch from his large, strong hand that she’d taken into hers as she sat upright. She smelled the disinfectant soap they’d used on him as she brought his hand up to her lips and placed a kiss in his palm, damning her heart for constricting in her chest as she did so.
