Heartbreak Lover (Broken Hearts Academy #2) - C.R. Jane Page 0,2

news. He was awake. Everything was going to be all right if he was awake.

Something flickered in Caiden’s gaze as he stared at me, something I’d never seen there before…something that looked a lot like hate.

But he couldn’t know what I’d done last night. There was no way. And he would understand once he did know. He would want me to be happy. He would want her to be happy.

I just knew it.

“Caiden,” I breathed, brushing my hair out of my face with a shaky hand.

He was giving me that look, and then it was like a jolt of lightning struck him. He sat straight up, groaning as he did so, a look of panic plastered across his face.

“Everly!” he screamed frantically. “Where is she?” He looked all over the room as if we were hiding her in a closet. “Everly!” he screamed again.

My parents had jumped up and were trying to get him to lay back down, but I was frozen in place, trying to understand why he was calling her name like that.

“Caiden, I’m sure she will be here soon. I left her a few messages. She’s probably just sleeping.”

“Everly!” he screamed again as he suddenly punched my dad full in the face, knocking him down to the ground as he struggled to unhook the wires and tubes.

I finally came to my senses and grabbed him, holding him down to the bed as my mother rushed out of the room to call the nurses for help.

“She’ll be here soon, bro. You need to calm down,” I reassured him through clenched teeth as he landed a hit to my left ribs.

“She was in the car,” he cried out, panicked. “She was in the car.” I’d never heard him sound like that.

It took me a full minute to grasp what he was saying, and when I did, my blood ran cold. And now it was me panicking.

“Everly was in the car?” I gasped. “What do you mean? Where is she? Is she okay?” The questions rushed out of me just like when I’d been asking my parents about him.

I felt sick to my stomach when he shook his head and a tear rushed down his face. “She was in the car, Jackson. Please just find out how she is,” he begged me.

“Stay in this bed,” I snarled out to him before letting go of him and rushing out of the room. My mother was screeching at the nurses in the hallway, telling them they needed to get “their asses” into the room and help her son.

I ignored her and ran over to the desk where a nurse was sitting, rolling her eyes at my mother’s antics.

I didn’t blame her.

But I was going to be making an even bigger scene if someone didn’t tell me where Everly was…and fast.

“Everly James,” I told her, tapping my fingers nervously on the edge of the counter. “Is she at this hospital? What room is she in?” Tears got caught in my throat, and for a second, I was a little ashamed that I didn’t have any tears for the guy I shared a womb with, but one mention of Everly possibly being hurt and I was a goner.

“Slow down, son,” she said soothingly as she began to type on her computer. “Is she the girl who came in with Mr. Parker?”

“I think so,” I told her quickly, although now that I was thinking about it, I couldn’t understand why Everly would have been in the car with Caiden. Why would she leave my bed to go be with him? It didn’t make any sense.

“Hmmm,” she muttered, jarring me from spiraling thoughts.

“What?” I asked desperately.

“It says here she’s in surgery. Critical condition in fact.”

“Critical condition.” I repeated the words slowly, not understanding them.

The nurse nodded sympathetically, obviously seeing the devastation written all over my face. “I’ll let you know as soon as I hear anything. But she doesn’t look good, sweetheart,” she said softly.

I suppose I should’ve backed off and just gone and waited, grateful for the information that she’d given me when she didn’t have to give me anything. But I couldn’t. “Please, tell me what her injuries are,” I begged. A cry slipped from my lips. It felt like I was dying. I needed to be with her. She shouldn’t be alone. “Please, she’s everything to me.”

The nurse looked conflicted, HIPAA rules and all that weighing on her mind, I was sure. But I didn’t think it was often you saw a guy