“On it!” She gave her friend a thumbs up before disappearing into the kitchen.
She moved around Lo’s kitchen with familiarity and ease. “Hey, Beckett’s team is coming home today, and we’re supposed to have dinner at his place.” Evie spoke loud enough her friend could hear her in the other room. “But I can reschedule for tomorrow since you got home today instead of?—”
“Don’t you dare reschedule!” Lo cut her off sharply. “Any guy who can make you smile like that at the mere mention of his name is not a man you should keep waiting.”
Her shoulders shook with soft laughter as she reached high in one of the cabinets for a set of crystal flutes. “You don’t even know what I’m going to say about him.”
“Don’t have to. I saw the look in your eyes when that Ashley gal told you he was the one who sent those papers.”
Evie grinned even as a rush of heat crept up the back of her neck. She’d had a look? She never realized that before. Of course, she’d never had anyone in her life like Beckett before, so there was that.
God, I can’t wait to see him again.
“Okay, but if you’re sure.” She walked over to the refrigerator, pulling open the stainless-steel door before reaching in and grabbing the bottle of champagne. “Hey, what if I have dinner with Beckett tonight, but you and I do something tomorrow?” She smiled wide as she used her hip to seal theappliance up tight. “We could go out to dinner, or stay here and relax with a PJ, popcorn, and movie night…whatever you want.”
Evie started for the living room but stopped when a soft thud reached her ears. The sound was odd enough to give her pause, so she set the two flutes and the bottle of wine down onto the kitchen’s generous island before starting her search.
She looked toward the wide archway that led from the kitchen to the living room. “Lo?” Evie started back to where her friend was waiting. “What happened? You already crash and burn from the red-eye?”
With a smile on her face—and a far lighter step than normal—she bounced into the living room expecting to find Lo crashed out on the couch. But her friend was no longer on the couch. She was lying face-down in the middle of the floor.
And she wasn’t moving.
“Lo!”Evie called for her as she ran over to where she lay.
Dropping to her knees, she ignored the sharp pain rolling through her joints from the impact and began moving Lo’s hair away from her face to see if she could figure out what the hell happened.
“Are you okay? Lo, can you hear me?” Evie’s heart dropped when Lo’s face came into view.
The other woman’s eyes were closed, and she still hadn’t moved. So no, she didn’t think Lo could hear anything anymore.
No!
Evie pressed the pads of her index and middle fingers against the side of Lo’s neck. Relief flooded her eyes with tears when she found a steady pulse and saw the shallow rise and fall of the other woman’s chest.
Thank you, God!
Reaching behind her back, she attempted to grab her phone. But when her hand met nothing but denim, Evie rememberedsetting it down onto the counter earlier, right before Lo’s unexpected arrival.
Dammit!
“You’re going to be okay,” she promised her unconscious friend. “I’m calling for help!”
Evie pushed herself back up to her feet and sprinted for the kitchen. The phone was exactly where she remembered, and she grabbed it so quickly, the damn thing nearly fell from her hands.
She dialed nine-one-one as she ran back to where Lo still lay. Crouching down beside her sweet friend, she did another check to make sure the woman was still breathing.
“Open your eyes, Lo.” Evie shook Lo’s shoulder in an attempt to wake her. “Come on, damn you. Open your freaking?—”
“Nine-one-one, what’s the address of your emergency?”
“Hello?” She spoke to the man on the phone. “Is this?—”
“This is nine-one-one, ma’am. Are you experiencing an emergency situation?”
“Yes!” Evie blurted loudly. “Um, I-I mean, not me, but my friend. We were just sitting and talking and laughing and I left the room for like two minutes, and when I came back she was lying unconscious on the floor.”
“Okay, ma’am, I understand, and I’ll send first responders your way as soon as I have the address where you and your friend are located.”