All Chapters of Crossing The Blue Line: His Forbidden Puck Bunny: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE RILEY’S POVIt had been more than a day since Jax left.The machines were still beeping beside my bed and the light through the window was the same washed-out hospital grey. My head ached less now, but the heaviness in my chest still hadn’t moved.Then someone knocked once.The door opened and Logan walked in.He looked like the definition of wrecked. There were dark circles under his eyes, his clothes seemed wrinkled, and his hair looked like he had been running his hands through it for hours. He closed the door behind him and stood there a second longer than necessary, it was like he wasn’t sure he wanted to come any closer.“How are you?” he asked.His voice was quiet with a little bit of care underneath.I pushed myself up against the pillows. “What’s the matter with you?”“Nothing.”“Logan.”He shook his head. “I said it's nothing. There’s no need to worry, it’s just a few things that are on my mind.” He stepped closer to the bed. “How are you feeling? Reall

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE RILEY'S POV Logan left the room without another word.The door clicked shut behind him and the silence that followed felt heavier than anything he'd said. I sat there with the tears still running down my face, my hands folded together in the blanket, and the threat Logan made still playing itself in my head like a broken record in my head.A few minutes later the door opened again.It was the same nurse from earlier, she took one look at me and her expression changed."Oh, honey." She set her chart down and came straight to the side of the bed. "Hey. It's okay. You're alright."I tried to wipe my face but more tears kept coming.She pulled a tissue from the box and handed it to me. "Was it your brother? The one who just left?"I nodded once.She didn't push for details. She just checked the monitors, then took my wrist gently to feel my pulse."Your heart rate is up," she said quietly. "Your blood pressure too. That's not good with the pregnancy." She wrote som

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVERILEY'S POVI heard the shouting before I could understand any of the words being spoken.It was muffled through the door, but I recognized both voices instantly. It was Jax and Logan. My whole body went rigid in the hospital bed, my heart was pounding so hard I could feel it in my throat.Then I heard the footsteps. They were fast and heavy, and more than one set, rushing past my window in the hallway.I pushed myself up, wincing at the pull in my side, and reached for the call button just as the door opened.It was the nurse, the same nurse from earlier, the one who had helped me with Logan. She came in quickly, closing the door behind her, and I could see it on her face before she even said anything."What's happening out there?" I asked, in a cracking voice. "Was that Jax? And Logan?"She came to the side of the bed, checking my vitals out of habit even in the middle of everything. "I only caught the tail end of it on my way back from another patient. But I kno

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVENLOGAN'S POVI grabbed my keys off the counter. "I have to go.""No, you don't." Scarlett moved quickly, putting herself between me and the door before I could reach it. "You don't get to walk in here, act like a ghost, get some mystery text that turns your face white, and then just leave.""Scarlett, move.""No.""I'm not doing this right now.""You're not doing anything right now," she snapped. "That's the problem. You never do anything except take. You show up when you need somewhere to put your head, you use me until you feel steadier, and then you disappear the second something serious actually happens. What am I to you, Logan? A place to hide?""That's not fair.""Isn't it though?" Her voice cracked slightly, and I could tell it cost her a lot, to let it show. "I called you today because I actually meant it. I wanted to know you were okay and you can't even give me that much."My phone buzzed again in my pocket.I froze.She saw it. Of course she saw it, she

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINERILEY'S POVI couldn't stop replaying it.This is a copy of our marriage certificate. It’s still active, we never dissolved it.We have a son together.I sat in the hospital bed with my knees pulled up, staring at nothing, the words kept looping over and over again in my mind no matter how hard I tried to push them out. He had a wife and a son. That’s an entire life stacked up behind the man I'd built my whole world around, and I hadn't known a single piece of it.Maybe she was lying. Maybe it was some elaborate scheme to scare me off, some piece of whatever Scarlett or Logan or anyone else circling us was orchestrating.But the way she'd said it. There were specifics. The town and everything else. None of that felt like a lie built on nothing.The door opened, and I flinched so hard the bed frame almost rattled."Whoa. Hey." Jax stepped in, still in his practice gear, his hair was damp, a small smile already forming before he saw my face properly. "You okay?""F