Page 42 of Reckless Youth
Sounding like a savage animal, a growl erupted from his lungs as he moved with lightning speed, unzipping, removing, and throwing our clothes to the floor until we were both left in only our underwear.
Just as he was about to slide my panties off, our phones began chirping incessantly with incoming notifications.
One.
Two.
Three.
Until the sounds of our phones drowned out the music and our own heavy breaths and pulled our concentration away from each other.
Cam looked down at me expectantly.
“Maybe it’s Sage.”
I nodded and we both reached for our phones at the same time. I had to get out of bed to grab my purse and Cam bent down to fumble for his from his pants pocket.
He was first to reach his phone and began to scroll through his messages that continued to beep, beep, beep. The moment I opened the first text, I was paralyzed with fear. I collapsed to my knees, clutching my chest where my heart had just surged through a red light and crashed into a fiery, painful explosion.
When I looked back over at Cam, he stood frozen as well, pinning me with a hard look.
“This has to be a mistake. It’s a fucking lie.”
“What does yours say?” I hesitantly asked, my voice quivering from my throat. If his messages were anything like mine, I was scared to learn the truth. That we’d received the same horrific notifications.
The same life-changing and horrible news.
Cam’s strong jaw clenched in anger as his eyes clouded over with raw pain.
“Sage’s dad is dead. Sage has been arrested for murder...”
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To Be Continued in Part 2
Reckless Abandon
