Choose Me- the second novel

Chapter 38- do you not know Taylor?

Matty's POV

The snow, which is now falling heavily, is oddly peaceful. At one am nobody is walking about and disturbing it. The car park is still almost devoid of people. Pulling my phone out, I arrange a tow for the 4x4 online so that it gets sent back home for tomorrow.

Taking a long pull on my cigarette and looking up I see Jay eyeing me. Give me a break, I think to myself, it's already killing me that he's been with her alone. Wondering what he might have said to her, how he would have comforted her.

"You okay man" he asks dragging on his own cigarette.

"I'm all good just towing the car home." I tell him simply.

"Is she going to be okay" he asks tentatively.

"Not seen her that way before" he adds softly as I turn to inspect him.

"I know. It was tough on her I think she thought he was a goner." I explain pocketing my phone and facing him.

"She was collapsed in the snow beside him when I found her. Completely cold through and through, grasping at his hands and checking for a pulse" he explains looking into the parking lot.

The guilt I feel for not being able to help her in her time of need is immense. However at the time, without my car he was the best option to help her, to stop this from becoming an absolute nightmare where she ends up physically hurt. The prospect of her having conceived my child was very much on my mind the entire time.

"Are you okay man?" I ask him, aware that he may also be feeling a sense of shock.

"I'm fine, she isn't" he says simply.

"She cried a lot in the car" he adds, sighing slightly.

"You think she's got him talking yet?" He asks turning to me, one hand in his pocket as he smokes.

"Well I guess we will see" I say knowing that Taylor will not stop until she talks to Ross, and makes sure that he is okay.

"She ugh is a very caring person" he says oddly.

"Well don't give her too much credit!" I laugh sarcastically.

"No I just mean, the way she reacted to him in the hospital bed. And how she has been trying to get him to wake up" he explains.

"Yes? Do you not know Taylor? At all? She hung up on me in the car and went looking for him putting herself in danger" I retort.

"She's like that, always has to do the right thing. Risks herself over stuff like that." I say and is it coming across that I'm proud of her?

"She would even do it for you Jay" I laugh.

"It's fucking admirable." He says taking a last drag on his cigarette and then drop shooting it into an ash tray.

I shake my head and follow him back through the revolving doors, he eyes the receptionist on the way in and she blushes.

Pulling him and his Barbour jacket over to the food hall, I notice it's similar to Taylor's jacket and sigh. He pulls his black beanie off of his head and blonde waves tumble down almost to his shoulders.