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I barely get a chance to register what it is when the sirens start wailing, and the ambulance passes by me.
Dread shoots through me, and I sprint toward the house in time to see my brother bending down to console Gage. I look around the room, but Mom and Dad are nowhere in sight.
I come to a stop just as my brother pats his kid on the shoulder and straightens to his full height.
“What the hell happened?” I pant, my breathing heavy from the running.
Aaron grits his teeth, the motion so similar to Dad’s you’d think they’re one and the same. Then he says the words that rattle me to my very core. “Dad just had a heart attack.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
REBECCA
Yes, you know this place isn’t home any longer.
I couldn’t erase the determined look on Miguel’s face from my mind. Nor the sorrow that flashed there before he finally got in his SUV and drove away.
For good.
He was gone for good this time.
They thought I didn’t overhear the conversation, but they would be wrong. It wasn’t my intention to listen in on them, but I just caught the end of their discussion and heard enough to put the pieces together.
Miguel had left.
And I just knew he would not be coming back again.
I saw it on his face.
Miguel Fernandez was done with Bluebonnet Creek.
“You’ve been awfully quiet.”
I blink, my focus once again on Savannah who’s carefully watching me. She tilts her chin in my direction, those crystal blue eyes not missing anything. “What’s up with that?”
I place the cup I’ve been drying down and take another one. “Nothing, just lost in my thoughts.”
She crosses her arms over the counter, her laptop and anywork that she’s been doing forgotten. “Thoughts about what exactly?”
Miguel.
All my thoughts lately have been surrounding him.
The way he kissed me.
The feel of his hands as they explored my body.
The anger that flashed in his eyes when he found out the secret I’d been keeping from him.
The ache in my chest as I watched him drive away.
Miguel. Miguel. Miguel.
I’m not sure why because he sure as hell wasn’t thinking about me.
On the contrary, really.
He had no problem leaving as if nothing had happened.
