Page 15 of The Voices are Back

He thought I was just a little bitch about the gym.

I wasn’t.

But with his inability to trust modern medicine, and his lack of trust in me, well, I was doomed to fail in his eyes.

I set my left-handed milks on the ground, ignored his rude words, and then used my free hand to help lift my right hand up. Once I had those on the belt, I bent over just in time to see Aodhan lifting the two milk jugs up with two fingers.

The show-off.

“Have you lost weight?” Lizzie asked.

I nearly glared at her.

She damn well knew I hadn’t lost weight.

“Thank you,” I said stiffly, feeling my face heat.

Oh, shit.

“No problem,” Aodhan smiled. “Your dad and I were just catching up.”

I shrugged and smiled at the lady behind the checkout. She was checking Aodhan out.

I cleared my throat and said, “I’m so sorry, but I’m in a bit of a bind. I’ll have a full-on riot at the coffee shop if I don’t hurry.”

She jumped, then smiled at me apologetically as she rang me up.

The total came up to twice what I would’ve paid with my supplier, but I ignored that and held my watch up to the panel, paying wirelessly.

“What have I told you about using that method of payment?” my dad growled.

I ignored him, smiled, then reached for my milks.

“Thank you,” I said as I did.

Only, when I went to reach for my milks, the only ones that weren’t in Aodhan’s clutches were two.

“Uhh,” I said, feeling the sweat break out even more.

“You look a little flushed, dear,” Lizzie said as I got close to her.

I knew I did.

Actually, my heart was racing, my head was pounding, and I knew I had a very limited time to sit down.

In fact, I had about two minutes to calm myself down, or I’d be out on the parking lot asphalt.

I hurried to my car, feeling the knowledge start to creep into my veins.

My vision started to go black when I got the trunk open.

I swallowed hard past the bile, dropped the two milks unceremoniously into the back of my car, and then promptly passed out.

Dammit. Wrong again.

“We’ve got to stop meeting like this.”

That deep, rumbly voice was like music to my soul.

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