Chapter 28
Christopher
Work was brutal. I kept calling the hospital to check up on Marcus, but there was only so much they could tell me since I wasn’t family. Which pissed me off, because deep down I knew I was. I kept slamming my phone down and burying myself in paperwork. Relentless, I pounded out brutal choreography until my muscles throbbed with a silent plea to stop. I felt out of control and helpless to the circumstance. It felt like my entire world was crashing down around me, and on top of it all I’d pissed off Jessi again.
The one person I wanted to make happy.
After work and plodding through dinner I didn’t want, I went straight to Jessi’s. I needed to know how she was doing. I needed to know how her father was. It was eating me alive that I’d upset her and that I’d been so
