I was just in an accident. Her words echoed in my mind. My mouth went dry. My hands were cold. The phone was clutched in a death grip at my ear. I worked my jaw, trying to speak while also trying to process what she’d just said. What I had just said. “What?” I breathed, not realizing I said it out loud.
“I was just in an accident,” Nica repeated, her voice uncomfortably calm.
“Hold on…” I fumbled for a moment, forgetting how to put the call on hold. I blinked a few times, trying to focus. “Hold on.”
I hit the right buttons, finally succeeding in my mission and went to find Eli. I swallowed a few times, trying not to act like my world had just been turned upside down. “Nica’s on the phone,” I told him, my voice barely above a whisper.
His brow pulled together as he looked me over, “
