CHAPTER 53

Secret corners

Pov: Maddison

I hated feeling like this. I hated feeling like a miserable bitter bitch as I tried to concentrate on the movie I was watching, nestled in Shawn's lap.

Shawn was a sweetheart. He had arrived at my suite in the Vanderbilt tower, after hearing how bad I sounded on the phone, even after I promised him that I was okay. I was fine. I was only feeling a little under the weather.

Which were all lies by the way.

He obviously didn't buy my bullshit... Or maybe he did, because thirty minutes later, he was showing up in front of my suite, holding up 'get well soon' balloons, cards, flowers and the biggest box of chocolates I have ever seen.

He felt my temperature and decided I needed sunlight, ice cream and retail therapy.

And the next thing I knew, we were inside his car and he was taking me to a park where he bought ice cream for the both of us and we sat under a tree, stretching our feet in the sun.

He had looked at me with the tenderest green eyes and asked, "wha