AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Fine. Just trying to get you to snap out of this funk and get to work.” Claudia slaps her open palm against my chest, throwing herself into big sister fix-it mode. “We have to find her. Right now. Where could she be? Do you think we should start at Daughtry’s?”
The eagerness in her voice gives me a pinch of hope. Maybe Lily couldn’t have moved on that fast. “I might know where she is,” I admit. “I put a tracker on her phone.”
She palms her forehead in disbelief. “You didn’t.”
“I did.” I pull my phone from my pocket, showing her the app.
She looks down at the screen. “God, you did.”
“Yup. Sure did. Overprotective Bachman man through and through, but I swear, I haven’t looked at it since I broke it off.”
She rolls her eyes again. “Like that makes it better.” Then she demands, “Look her up. Right now.”
“I thought you were against me having a tracker on her phone without her knowing?” I say.
“Not when it means that your bad behavior helps us undo your previous bad behavior and lead us to a happy ending.” She points at me. “Now look.”
My heart races as I pull up her location. “She’s at the corner store. The one by her apartment.”
Claudia grabs my arm. “Let’s go.”
Like when we were kids, each trying to prove we were the faster twin, we run, side by side, dodging past people as we head to the shop. We arrive at the door of the bodega, and I can see her in the window.
Standing in line. Staring down at something in her hands.
I throw open the door, shouting to her, “Don’t marry him. You belong with me. Not him.”
A dozen strangers making last-minute snack and various pharmacy and body care purchases stare back at me.
And she doesn’t even look up.
CHAPTER 27
Rockwell
Someone behind her gives her a gentle nudge. “Excuse me, miss. I think that angry-looking man taking up the doorway is yelling at you.”
“What?” she blinks, looking around.
My heart bangs against my chest as she finally finds my eyes.
“Oh, my god. What’s he doing here?” she asks the woman behind her. “What did he say?”
The woman replies, “He said not to get married.”
“What?” Lily’s gaze goes from my face to the women behind her. “What is he talking about?”
The stranger gives Lily a gentle push. “I think you’d better go talk to him.”
Lily moves slowly, as if in a daze, walking toward me. I stand in the doorway, my sister still on the street behind me. Claudia pushes me forward, letting the door close between us.
Lily reaches me. “Rockwell. What are you doing here?”
A pleading tone I’ve never heard myself use comes over my voice. “I’m here for you. To stop you from marrying him.”
“Him who?” Her gaze narrows in confusion.
“Whoever you were trying the wedding dress on for.”
