Page 139 of Fighting Chance

Chapter 28

Layla

BOOKISH BITCHES

CINDY

oh my fucking god, is anyone up to chapter twenty-four?

LAYLA

no!!!

don’t spoil please omg I’m dying to read

BELLA

you bitches need to get the audiobook

I’m done

CINDY

ALREADY?

BELLA

pays to be an audio girlie

CINDY

I can practically feel your smugness

BELLA

jealous?

LAYLA

I need to introduce you two toimmersive reading

Ididn’t realize how nervous I was to surprise Kieran until he stepped through the front door. My heart was hammering as fast as a hummingbird’s wings and it didn’t stop until a smile lit up his face. The tension practically leaked out of his body as he dropped his duffel bag and swept Emmy into his arms.

His gaze lifts to mine and holds. “Thank you,” he whispers, and it’s thick enough to make me pause.

Before I can probe any further as to why his deep ocean eyes seem to be a little heavier tonight, he turns away from me, only to stop once he sees the oversized Oodie lying on the couch.

“Is that…”

“Emmy picked them out.” I can’t help but chuckle. “She saw them and I couldn’t say no to her.”

He picks it up, the golden retriever printed all over it matching the one Emmy and I are wearing.

“She’s making me want to buy her a puppy.”

“You and me both.”

Emmy wriggles from Kieran’s hold and flings herself onto the couch. Kieran takes a seat beside her as he all but commands, “You better be staying.”