Letting My Brother's Best Friend Take My V-Card

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PART 2 - CHAPTER 139

LUKE

I hadn't slept in days. Every second Jess was in that hospital bed felt like a fucking eternity. My mind kept replaying every

some sick word, every look, every argument we'd had, like fucking loop I couldn't break out of.

We missed the game. Coaches were pissed, but Jocelyn managed to pull some strings for me, and it looked like his agent could do the same. I was surprised, to say the least, when I called Jocelyn; she was very... understanding and helpful. Frankly, I was shocked. Tomorrow, I had to fly out, or I'd be on the bench for the rest of the season. And even though I knew that every logical part of my brain screamed I had to go, I didn't want to leave. I would watch the world burn if it meant I could stay...

I

But after the incident with my father, I knew I was cut off financially, and I needed to make something of myself, for Jess... She deserved better, the fucking best.

The emergency surgery, the brain bleed, the doctors talking about taking her off sedation like that was some kind of miracle cure-it was all bullshit. She'd been out for over a week now, and still, nothing. No signs, no movement, no Jess. Hated every second of not knowing if she'd wake up or even be the same Jess when she did. Every minute that passed felt like another chunk of my chest being ripped out, and all I could do 22.03

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was sit there, pretending like I had any control over this shit.

I needed a shower, but I couldn't force myself to leave. What if she woke up when I wasn't there?

And then I heard it.

"She's waking up!" Jess's mom's voice pierced through the hall, and I shot up so fast the world spun around me. Everything blurred for a split second, but I didn't care.

I was running, my heart pounding in my throat,

was already there, standing frozen in the doorway,

open. Holy shit. She was looking around,

lighter, but it

wrong.

know where she was, and her hands twitched against the sheets like she wasn't in

ever, acting like this was just part

nurse said, her voice soft and soothing. "You're in

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mom's face. Jess didn't even recognize them. Her own fucking parents and she

my God, Jess..." Her mom choked out,

honey." Her dad's voice broke, and that was

hollow, and it felt like a punch straight to the gut. "Jess... baby, it's us," he said like was supposed to just know them. "It's Mom and Dad. You don't remember?"" But Jess didn't move. Her eyes were wide, filled with nothing but confusion and fear. She didn't fucking know them. How the fuck was this happening? This wasn't just confusion. This was something else, something much worse. "Jessica, you're safe," the nurse said, trying to get her to focus. "You've been through a

between faces, the second. Her dad leaned in closer, growing more frantic by the second. Her

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Jess flinched away from him, her voice sharp, panic thick in the air. "I don't know

it might break. Seeing her like this, seeing her terrified of the people she should know. better than anyone, it

into

to stop this. But I couldn't. I

the nurse said again, her voice still calm, but more urgent

I fucking broke. That look-her looking at us like we were strangers, like she didn't even know