Page 98 of Marrying Off My Husband

“Okay, I’ll be right there. I’ll be right there.” She ended the call and flicked her gaze up to me. “I need to go. Get out.”

“What’s happening? Was that about Eve?”

“Leave!” she shouted as she raced to grab her purse, her eyes wide as she stared down at it before she grabbed her phone. “When is the next bus?”

“Bus to where? If this is about Eve, tell me.” She didn’t bother to answer, so I added, “I have a car. I can drive you wherever you need to go.”

She snapped her gaze to me. “The hospital. Eve was in an accident.”

“What?” This time my voice raised an octave as Audrey pushed past me into the hall. “What happened? Is she okay?”

“I don’t know anything. I just know she was in an accident and now she’s at the hospital, okay?”

“Oh my word,” I said, my voice breathy as my chest constricted. I dug my phone from my purse as we hurried down the stairs, quickly dialing Spencer’s number.

“Lou? Hey, I hope you don’t need me to bail you out–”

“No time, Spence. Meet me at the hospital. Eve’s been in an accident.”

I ended the call, dumping my phone into my bag before I pushed outside and hurried to my car. I slid behind the wheel as Audrey buckled in next to me.

With the engine fired, I whipped from my parking space and sped to the hospital in record time. Spencer pulled up behind me in his red sports car.

I raced out of my own and tossed the keys at the security guard. “Ma’am, you can’t park here.”

“Keep it,” I shouted as I raced inside with Spencer and Audrey hot on my heels. I stopped at the triage nurse, barely breathing. “Eve Dawson. Where is she?”

“Are you family?”

“I’m her sister!” I shouted, my voice frenzied.

Audrey wrinkled her nose as she gave me a sideways glance while the nurse checked her screen. “She’s in cubicle three. I’ll buzz you in.”

We all raced to the door as she shouted, “You can’t all go back there.”

I waved the comment away as I skirted sideways past the slow-moving automatic door and barreled down the hall until I found the correct room.

Grabbing the jamb, I skidded into the room, gasping for breath as I prepared myself for tubes and wires coming from a comatose Eve.

Instead, I spotted her with her ankle propped on a pillow, bruised and swollen. She winced as she moved it before she spotted me, her brow pinching. “Lou?”

“Eve! My word,” I exclaimed as I pressed a hand against my heaving chest, “are you alright?”

“I’m okay. I’m just…a little maimed. But I’m fine.”

I wobbled into the room and collapsed on the edge of the bed. “Thank heavens. The hospital said you were in an accident but nothing else.”

“The hospital called you?”

“No,” Audrey answered for me. “They called me. She happened to be there when I took the call and offered to drive me.”

“You were with Audrey?” The confusion on Eve’s features grew as I tugged my lips into a wince.

“I was.”

“Yeah, she was threatening me.”

“That’s not true!” I shouted.

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