Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 69807 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 349(@200wpm)___ 279(@250wpm)___ 233(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 69807 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 349(@200wpm)___ 279(@250wpm)___ 233(@300wpm)
I studied the booth space as I walked up to them, wondering where I was supposed to sit.
With my sister, there would be a ton more room, because we were both smaller in stature.
But my feet carried me to Chevy, who immediately moved his arm around my shoulders and pulled me in close.
Silver took in everything, causing her grin to widen.
That was the thing about Silver, though.
She always smiled.
She had this sunny personality that was just impossible to ignore.
“Your new beau was just telling me about the day.” She lost her smile when she got serious. “I’m sorry you had to deal with that all day. I saw that accident from the other side of traffic. It was horrific.”
Chevy stiffened, and I smoothed my hand down the length of his thigh.
His very hard, very muscular thigh.
“Chevy lost a couple of his family today in that wreck,” I murmured quietly.
“He told me while you were in the bathroom when I asked how your day went,” she explained. “That’s the most awful thing ever.”
Our order number was called, and before either of us could react, Chevy slid out the opposite side of the booth and walked up to the counter for the food.
Silver cleared her throat and said, “What the fuck, Aella? You totally had sex with him already. And you didn’t tell me the moment that it happened? I’ve been praying for this to happen for months!”
I didn’t respond because Chevy was back, but I did kick her under the table and give her big eyes to get her to shut the hell up.
I loved my sister, but sometimes it was impossible to get her to control her mouth.
Her filter had always been broken, and that was my mom’s fault.
I’d had to protect her more than once from my mom’s verbal and physical blows.
Luckily, she had a dad that, though not all that great to me, was great to her.
He lost his shit on my mother multiple times when Silver would tell him what had happened, and my mom had to control herself or else.
“Not to ruin our appetite, but I’m curious.”
I unwrapped my burger and immediately took a huge bite.
Though Silver and I wouldn’t say it, this was a delicacy to us.
Silver and I both struggled to find jobs thanks to our mother’s issues.
It was often that she’d show up at our place of employment and beg for money or make us look bad.
Luckily, she hadn’t found me at the hospital yet.
But she always focused more on Silver because she was always doing better than I was, thanks to her father.
Needless to say, she struggled just as much as I did.
“About what?” I asked once I could speak.
“So, where’s our egg donor at?” Silver asked, her gaze going from me to Chevy and back again.
“I don’t know, and I didn’t ask.” Chevy shrugged. “All I know is that Cakes is dealing with her, and I’m going to leave him to it.”
I’d filled Silver in by text message after I’d been missing in action thanks to the flu. She’d actually cheered in joy in a voice note.
Silver nodded as if that made complete sense to her.
“Solid.” Silver took a bite of her burger. “Wonder if your computer guru could fix our credit for us, too.”
I was already shaking my head. “That computer guru just lost his son today. There’s no way I’d ever ask him to do that for us. Especially not any time soon.”
“Now might be a perfect time and I should have thought of that earlier,” Chevy admitted. “It’ll get his mind off of the grief that’s gripping his insides.”
And, as if he could hear us talking about him, Apollo walked through the door.
He clocked Chevy immediately and jerked his chin at him, and he stood. “Be right back.”
CHEVY
When I’d left earlier, it was with Apollo following me out into the parking lot.
They’d taken Tavi back to surgery to harvest his organs, and together we’d watched several ambulances and helicopters take off holding pieces of Tavi.
He’d asked for some space, and I’d given it to him, not following when he took off.
But he must’ve not made it too far if he was here.
“You want to join us?” I asked.
Apollo looked at the table, then at me, and shrugged.
“Go take a seat. I’ll order for you.”
Apollo did, and I ordered him his meal, remembering to hold all the sauces and cheese when I did.
Apollo didn’t sit directly at the booth with us, but he did choose to sit at the table that was directly beside the booth we were in.
“Here you go,” the guy I ordered from said as he handed me the orange triangle with our order number.
I placed the triangle in front of Apollo and found my seat.
I watched Apollo out of the corner of my eye as I ate, listening to Aella and Silver talk.