Love on the Fast Track (Derek and Norah)

Chapter 871

Chapter 871:

As the Wilsons dispersed from the clandestine gathering and returned to their rooms with cheerful expressions, a foreboding feeling clawed at Hadley’s thoughts.

“Joanna, Susanna… she cut herself again. Want to come with me to the hospital?”

Bryson slammed the phone down and thundered on Joanna’s door.

“They say it’s serious. Susanna is your friend! Doesn’t that bother you?”

His insistent knocking continued for five minutes. Just as he turned to leave, the door creaked open.

Joanna, clad in a baggy sweater, looked like a wisp of a girl. Dark circles marred her pale face.

her, Bryson said, “Okay,

he felt helpless against the ever-present shadow of the Carters

must visit her. And I promised Norah I’d look after

across her

he wouldn’t let her face it alone. Susanna’s room overflowed with

Scotts sat

now

to Phillip. “I thought Susanna had recovered?” He knew that mentally fragile people could magnify minor issues into insurmountable

return, he’d learned about the chaos Nancy, the adopted daughter, had unleashed on the Scotts. It wasn’t

that something

don’t know. The psychologist said Susanna’s psychological

with worry, said, “That psychologist is the best in the world. If he can’t help…” His voice trailed off,