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“Get a room!” someone yelled from the front of my house and we quickly pulled apart and turned to see Parker standing there in her pajamas, a big grin on her face.
“You’re a damn spy,” I called back, still standing there wrapped up in all that was Weston.
Slowly shaking her head, she laughed. “Y’all look like one of those couples on those red books about love that they sell at Walmart.”
I giggled. I guessed we probably did. Us embracing next to Weston’s gorgeous Harley. Him in his leather jacket, me holding my pretty helmet.
Lately, I was almost feeling like I was living inside one of those little red books.
Iwas on my way home from the salon when I got the call. The one that changed the course of everything and rocked me to my soul.
I was driving to the house with a smug smile on my face over the fact that Weston was going to come over in the morning and have pancakes with me and Parker before school. She’d invited him after he’d taken her out for driving lessons.
Something had changed while they had been out. I didn’t know what, but I knew it was something big. The two seemed closer, more in sync, and it made me so happy. It felt good for all three of us to be together.
So, yeah, I was driving home feeling like I’d won the damn lottery. I should have known because let’s face it. Whenever I was happy, life always gave me a good slap in the face to put me back in my spot.
At the bottom. Where I belonged.
I was almost home when he called. My caller ID read Weston and I was grinning as I picked up the phone. See? I was a fool.
“Hello,” I sang cheerfully.
“Emily,” he said all serious, and my smile fell with quickness. He hardly ever called me Emily unless we were having a serious conversation. I was slugger, babe, baby.
“What?” I snapped back, feeling like my stomach was somewhere up in my throat because I knew something was wrong.
“I don’t want you to worry. I’m with Parker. She is fine. Do you hear me, Emily? She is fine,” he repeated, but my brain couldn’t compute.
He couldn’t be with Parker. Parker was at school. It was only 1:00 p.m. She wasn’t out yet and why would he be with her?
“Can you hear me?” he said louder into the phone and in the background, I could hear the wail of sirens on his end and I felt like I was going to be sick.
“Yes, I hear you,” I said, feeling like I was in a daze. “But Parker’s at school, Weston,” I argued.
“Listen to me, Emily. She isn’t at school. She’s with me and we are on our way to the hospital downtown. She is fine, but I think something is wrong with her leg. She was in an accident. A car accident, but I’m with her. Do you understand?”
I shook my head. She couldn’t have been in an accident. She was at school, but somewhere in the back of my mind, I understood.
“Okay,” I breathed into the phone, doing a quick U-turn at the next light. I needed to go to the hospital downtown. That was where they were headed. It was like I was on autopilot.
“Park at the emergency room. Okay, Emily?”
I nodded and then realized he couldn’t see me. “Okay,” I said, hanging up quickly and trying to pay attention to where I was going.
I hit the interstate until I ended up downtown near the hospital, every worst-case scenario playing out in my head in the longest drive of my damn life.
When I finally parked at the emergency area parking and ran through the sliding glass doors, I was a damn mess. I knew my makeup had to be all over my panicked and tear-stained face, but I didn’t give a shit. I had to get to my daughter.
“I’m here to see Parker Davies. She’s my daughter,” I said quickly. “She arrived by ambulance.”
“Okay, we will get you right back to her in just a second, ma’am,” a lady said from behind a counter.
She typed a few things into a computer, placed a wristband on me, and ushered me through a set of double doors and down a long hallway.
I raced behind her, a pounding in my head, my legs quaking with every step.
When we finally entered a small room and I saw my daughter lying completely and totally conscious, talking to Weston, who was seated at her side, I nearly collapsed with relief.
