Always: Broken Series Book Four Read Free

months, yet you’re treating it like it’s something really urgent. I mean, you’re getting me up in the middle of the night to tell me about it. If you’ve lived with it for six months, you could live with it until tomorrow morning at around 10, which is when I plan on actually getting up to face the day.”
    I blinked back tears. I didn’t even know how to explain it to Olivia, but I had somehow reached the tipping point. The point where I couldn’t go another second without talking to somebody about it, even though she was absolutely right – I had gone this long without letting anybody know, so why not keep quiet for a few more hours?
    “I’m scared.”
    She sighed. “Munchkin, you can sleep here if you like. Like you used to when you were a little girl and was afraid of thunderstorms. Then tomorrow I can call mom and dad in the Poconos and tell them to come home and take you to a doctor. But right now, there’s not much that can really be done unless you want me to take you to the ER.”
    “Could you? Take me to the ER?”
    “You’re kidding, right? You’ve had the pain for six months, and you now want to go the ER? I think it ceased to be an emergency from the first time you ignored that pain.”
    “I need to know. I need to know right now.”
    “Go to bed.” She pointed to the door of her room. “And lock the door behind you.”
    “But Olivia-“
    “Get out. I need my rest and you do too. I’ll take you to the doctor tomorrow, but right now, you’re just going to have live with the pain.”
    I left the room and called Uber. I was going to get some answers that very second, whether Olivia wanted to help me or not.

Three
Scotty
    I t was that Sunday that everything turned upside down. Nick and I had been at the cabin for a little over a day, and it was absolute heaven. I knew that we would be back in the city the next day, and to say that I wasn’t looking forward to that would be understating things by a lot.
    “Can we just stay here forever?” I asked him as we snuggled naked next to the fire, a glass of champagne in each of our hands. It was early in the morning, but that didn’t matter. We didn’t have any compunctions about drinking well before noon, because we were on vacation.
    He kissed my forehead lightly. “I wish. Wouldn’t that be amazing? We just call the girls and tell them they can fend for themselves. Tell the partners to go to Hell. We’re staying here in our bubble for the rest of our lives.”
    I heard my phone ringing, but decided to ignore it. Nick rolled his eyes. “I thought I told you to turn that goddamned thing off. We don’t need to talk to Harry or Neil or anybody else from the firm about anything blowing up around there. It’s Sunday and I want to spend time with my girl.”
    I smiled. “I’m sorry, I forgot to turn it off. I’ll be right back though.”
    I got up to find my phone while Nick stared at me with a goofy grin. “Hurry back, I miss you already.”
    I looked at my phone, and saw “911” on the text message from Addison.
    Nick looked at me. “Did you turn it off?”
    “No, I think that there’s something going on with Addy. I need to call her and see what it is.”
    “There’s always something going on with one of our girls. Turn off that phone and come back and join me here on the floor. It’s feeling lonely.”
    “Let me call her first.”
    At that, he got up off the floor and took the phone from me. “You aren’t going to call her. You’re going to come back down on the floor and join me. We never get this kind of time with each other, and who knows when we can get this kind of time together again?”
    I crinkled up my eyebrows at him. “I’m serious, Nick. She sent me a text message that said 911. I can’t just ignore that.”
    “Yes you can. Listen, Addison isn’t exactly the most…” He put his hand to his chin. “How do I put this? Addison is a huge worrier, usually for nothing at all. I hate to say that she’s a bit