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VEGAS ACES: THE COACH BOOK 5
© Lisa Suzanne 2023
CHAPTER 1: LINCOLN
It’s the waiting that’s going to kill me.
I’m fine. I feel fine. The nurse ran a battery of tests on me, and they thought maybe I had a concussion, but I’ve had plenty of those and I know this isn’t one.
I can’t find any sort of distraction when I’m worried about Jolene. Her wrist was already swelling, and she said she had a headache. I wonder if she banged her head as hard as I banged mine. I wonder if she has a concussion. If her wrist is okay. If she is okay.
I wonder how to make us okay.
She told me there’s nothing left for us to fight for.
We have everything to fight for.
I’m not ready to give up.
I know I hurt her. I knew she’d be devastated if she ever learned the truth. There has to be some way to win her back, to prove to her that she can trust me.
I’m just not sure what it is.
We thought if we could just make our families see that we belong together, we’d make it through. How fucking naïve we were.
There’s nothing in the world that would ever bridge our families together, and now she hates me for keeping my father’s secret.
I can already predict that my family will assume she purposely set out to hurt me in what was only a terrible accident tonight. I don’t blame her. I only blame myself, and I’m glad I was in the car with her. I’m glad we were together so I could call for help. I’m glad she wasn’t alone.
But being glad about all those things doesn’t get us back together.
“What room is Jolene Bailey in?” I ask the nurse.
“I’m so sorry, but I can’t discuss another patient with you due to privacy laws.”
I blow out a breath. “You can’t tell me if she’s okay?”
“She’s not my patient tonight.”
A little growl of frustration escapes my throat. I get that this woman is just doing her job, but that doesn’t make it any easier for me to accept.
I try texting her.
Me: Are you okay?
She doesn’t reply.
She’s okay. She said she was okay when we were in the car. But that doesn’t take away any of the worry I feel right now.
It seems to take forever before they set me free, and I walk up to the front desk. “Can I see Jolene Bailey please?”
“It’s an emergency room, sir. Immediate family only.”
I heave out a frustrated breath and take a seat in the waiting area.
I think about texting Sam to let her know what’s going on, and that’s when I realize she may be my ticket in.
