BooksBarbecue
Back Melting For You
Chapters (45)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Prologue
  4. Chapter One
  5. Chapter Two
  6. Chapter Three
  7. Chapter Four
  8. Chapter Five
  9. Chapter Six
  10. Chapter Seven
  11. Chapter Eight
  12. Chapter Nine
  13. Chapter Ten
  14. Chapter Eleven
  15. Chapter Twelve
  16. Chapter Thirteen
  17. Chapter Fourteen
  18. Chapter Fifteen
  19. Chapter Sixteen
  20. Chapter Seventeen
  21. Chapter Eighteen
  22. Chapter Nineteen
  23. Chapter Twenty
  24. Chapter Twenty-One
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  33. Chapter Thirty
  34. Chapter Thirty-One
  35. Chapter Thirty-Two
  36. Chapter Thirty-Three
  37. Chapter Thirty-Four
  38. Chapter Thirty-Five
  39. Chapter Thirty-Six
  40. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  41. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  42. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  43. Epilogue
  44. Acknowledgements
  45. About the Author

“Why don’t you see for yourself?” At that she stops at a door and nods towards it. I know that if something bad had happened then there would have been more questions or more waiting, but I’m still terrified of what I will find. I take two deep breaths to calm my shaking hands and reach for the handle.

Behind the door Ellis is sitting up on the bed with an IV in her arm and a grey band wrapped around her exposed bump. Now my heart is thumping for a different reason. She looks so small. I know can see she’s awake, but that doesn’t mean she is safe.

“Ellis! Fuck, are you okay?” I’m across the room and taking her into my arms. I need to feel her skin against mine. I need to feel that she is warm and alive; her heartbeat can be heard on the monitor, but it doesn’t feel like enough.

“I’m fine Liam, I promise,” Ellis whispers against my shoulder as I take my time breathing her in.

“And— and the baby? Is the baby okay?”

“She’s fine. Strong as hell.” She starts running her fingers through my hair so I settle in beside her. I needed to know she was okay but I think she just needed me.

“Sunshine.”

“We’re okay Liam, we’re okay.”

“I thought… I don’t even know what I thought, but god, I was so scared.” On the bed I sit beside her and tuck her into my side so I can rest my head on top of hers. It will take an act of god to pull me away from her.

There was a time I lived for nobody, all I lived for was the thrill of taking to the ice with hundreds of people screaming my name. As much as I loved it, there was something missing, something empty in my heart. For a minute today, my heart stopped because I thought that the person I want to spend my life with was hurting.

My heart stopped because the idea of living without her and Jack and our baby didn’t feel like a life I could live. I have missed out on a lot of things that normal people have in their lives. A nine-to-five job, a steady home that I go back to every night instead of moving around the country every few years, strong relationships built on trust and not on what I can offer.