When Lily Langston goes to a game with her best friend. The last thing she ever thought to happen was being hit in the face with a ball.
But what left her even more shocked was when the guest pitcher himself, the known ruthless billionaire Hayes Gr...
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Holy shit.
My head hurt the most it ever had. It was like a thousand migraines in one leaving my world on a spinning axis. With my eyes sealed the only thing I come to recognize is the smell of sanitizer.
Hand sanitizer to be exact. It had been one of my favorite scents growing up but I always correlated it to hospitals. But as I shuffle and feel the fabric against my skin the sound of a beep fills my ears.
I open my eyes to be greeted by the expected vision. I was in a hospital bed. I attempt to sit up slowly but fail within an instant as the IV in my wrists hurts and a pang in my head is revisited.
What the hell happened? I was at Alisha's dinner and then-
That gut-wrenching feeling sinks itself in my stomach and twists it into millions of mini knots tugging at each organ. The words come rushing into my mind making all the pain I was currently experiencing ten times worse.
Because it was a different kind of ache, this was heartache. One that cost me to be hit by a car on the wrong side of the road and a bad judgment call. I glance around the room to see nobody.
Figures.
I swore I heard Beckham call my name. He was there, but nobody was here now. I look out the window to see the night sky as dark as ever, the only thing visible in this room is the moonlight shining against me.
I was alone.
I feel the tears bubble up my eyes because this is how it's always been. In some way, I've always been on my own. Well, Dad was there a lot but since his death, my mother has been radio silent. But if my mother knew, knowing her my siblings are probably unaware, and I'm alone.
I let the tears trickle down my cheeks as it hurts to breathe. As my chest rises and falls a sharp pain could be felt. As I cry the throbbing pain at the top corner of my head intensifies. And as I look at my skin, I see it covered in bruises.
The car flipped.
I gasp as I hear a noise, the sound of some type of bear. It throws me off guard and I flinch in fear as I look over. But as I do and I look down to the ground beside my bed, my heart stops.
He lay there with his hair disheveled snoring away beside me. I hated him, I loved him but I hated him. I couldn't let one or the other win, it was a battle that would never end.
"H-Hayes?" I whisper not interrupting his sleep.
I wasn't alone and the thought of that caused me to cry more. My hand clasps over my mouth as I try to withhold my tears. My body shakes from its unexpected reaction to my emotions.
It aches, it all aches. Every inch of me has been damaged in some way, the worst being my heart.
Because the world's most confusing man slept next to me. After saying I was just a fuck, after an accident, he snored next to me as I lay in this bed. I couldn't contain myself, I was in emotional overdrive with no signal of when it would end.
