Page 206 of Poison Vows

“Give me your keys. I don’t have time to go to my house.”

“You’re not driving.”

“Fine, then you drive me.”

“I’m incapable of driving.”

I glare at him, deciding to take an Uber instead. King snatches my phone clean out of my hands.

“You need to calm down,” he says simply. “Your eyes are screaming bloody murder. That won’t go over well, especially with that black eye.”

Ah, yes. Curtesy of my brother-in-law who found me and decided to use me as a punching bag. I welcomed it with open arms.

“Give me my phone back. I need to see her for myself.”

“I told you! She’s doing well! She started speaking today.”

“You don’t understand! Angel is much more complicated than that…”

She can attempt to silently kill herself with no one the wiser. If I don’t get to her like before, if anything happens to her…

“Listen man, just give her a moment to?—”

“If you’re not going to help me, then stay the fuck out of my way or I swear Knight will become fatherless!”

I stalk out the room, leaving King shaking his head. At least he knows better than to think my words are a bluff.

When I get to the hospital, I’m once again refused entry into the wing my wife is being kept and then I run into trouble.

“You have some nerve!”

Kimberly charges at me, her big belly jutting out at the world. I freeze on the spot.

“With all your supposed intellect, what part of fuck off don’t you get?” she yells. “You did this to her and now you’re back for, what? Another round?”

“It’s none of your business, Kimberly,” I fume, unable to control myself. “I want to see her. Where is she?”

“For what? You obviously like toying with her like you’ve been doing since I’ve known you!”

“You don’t know anything!”

“I know that you’re a coward!”

She could’ve slapped me in the face and said God bless you, but I wouldn’t be as shocked.

“You are a coward at everything! At love! At life! At being a human being! You’re a coward Emmett Easton and you made my best friend suffer for it! If you wanted nothing to do with her, then you should’ve stayed away from her!”

I tried. God, I tried, but I couldn’t…

“Where is she?” I mutter, my chest aching like crazy.

“None of your business! You better leave. She doesn’t want to see you!”

Noah stands behind his fiancée, not saying a word, but I can see the message in his eyes, so I leave and go sit in my car before coming back a few hours later.

I’m denied information, so I go to the bar.

Then come back the next day, and the next.

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