The Soccer Star's Forgotten Wife novel · Chapter 22 of 32
Chapter 22: Two A.M.
"Which bar?" I said.
He told me.
"I'll go," Cody said, sitting up beside me.
"No. You stay with Junie." I pulled my jeans on in the dark. "If he sees you, he'll stop talking. He's always talked to me."
Robin was standing in the bedroom doorway in a T-shirt that said "I RUN TOWARD IT", with her car keys already in her hand.
"Bring her back," Cody said.
"I always bring people back. It's my whole job."
Colfax at two-thirty in the morning was neon and empty bus stops.
Dex was sitting on the curb at the back of the bar's lot, between a dumpster and a black SUV with Front Range plates.
Robin was out of the car before I'd put it in park.
She crouched in front of him and shone a penlight in each eye, and took his wrist, and counted.
"You're drunk and stupid," she said. "You're not dying."
She wrapped a foil blanket around his shoulders and put a bottle of water in his hand.
"Drink all of it."
He drank all of it.
I didn't sit next to him.
"Tell me," I said.
"It wasn't a loan," he said.
"I know."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of The Soccer Star's Forgotten Wife are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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