A Sudden Response

A Sudden Response

Author: R.L. Mathewson Listening Length: 6h 52m

Eric and Joe, the EMT crew of Echo 17, have been best friends since they were eight years old when Eric had taken it upon himself to improve the ugly dress that Joe was wearing with a handful of worms, only to have Joe force him to- Well, it wasn’t important what Joe made him do with that handful of worms or the vow t...

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Chapter 24

CHAPTER 24

“ I want to go home and go to bed,” Joe said, knowing that she was whining, but she couldn’t help it. After an eight-hour class and a two-hour drive, the only thing that she wanted was to go home and crawl into her own bed.

Okay, so maybe that wasn’t the only reason she was tired. Since Eric gave her the shock of a lifetime on Friday, they’d been inseparable when she wasn’t in class. They went for walks, talked, went out to eat, went dancing, and cuddled and whispered most of the night while Nathan snored a few feet away. They hadn’t had a chance to make love since they’d decided to give this a chance and she fully planned on rectifying that just as soon as she found a way to get out of this.

“Can’t,” Eric said, reaching back and grabbed her hand when she tried to make her escape. “Mom called a family dinner.”