Chapter 40

The second I pressed my foot onto the ground, out of the car, I was engulfed in a bear hug. My eyes widened in surprise, wondering where Elijah had come from.

"I was worried sick about you," he breathed out, his voice thickly coated in relief and frustration, "I thought..." he pulled away and looked down at me, gazing at me with adoration before he pressed his lips to mine, "I thought I lost you," he breathed out in a shaky breath.

My arms finally worked and I wrapped them around his waist, pulling him closer to me, "I'm all good," I told him, looking at the way his hair was messy and all over the place, "I went to see Junior."

"Junior?" he repeated, a frown growing on his face, "why?" he asked me.

"Because I needed to," I responded, "I needed to tell him the truth and I needed him to heal- I needed to heal. Today would've been our wedding day, and I thought that before he and I truly went our