Always The Second Choice

Summary

1.

I fell down the stairs, and for once, Aiden Carter actually dropped his work to come to the hospital.

But just as he got to the emergency room doors, he took a call. An urgent client situation, he said.

He turned around and left.

Later, as I was dragging my fractured leg through the first-floor lobby to deal with insurance paperwork, my phone buzzed. Emily Summers had a new Instagram post.

It was a photo of Aiden, half-kneeling at her feet, carefully putting a Band-Aid on a scrape on her