Down To You (The Love On Edge Series) by Addison Kline Read Free Book Online Page A

miscommunications and set backs. Just because things don’t work out the first time, doesn’t mean things aren’t meant to be.
     
    In a moment of bravery, Holly grabbed her cell phone from her purse. She caught her breath and closed her eyes as she dialed Brant’s number.
     
    Please pick up.
     
    After two rings Brant’s voicemail picked up causing Holly’s heart to sink.
     
    “It’s just me. I just wanted to hear your voice.”
     
     
    *****
     
     
    “Sloane?” Brant asked with a perplexed tone of voice.
     
    “Yeah, who else?” said Sloane as if Brant was supposed to assume it would be her calling. She never called him.
     
    “I can think of a number of other people who I would expect to hear from other than you,” Brant admitted.
     
    “No one as fabulous as me! Now listen up!” Sloane demanded.
     
    Brant listened as Sloane went on a rampage about what he needed to say and do to get Holly back.
     
    “You need to say it exactly like that!”
     
    “I’ll give it a shot.”
     
    “Mess this up and I’ll kill you myself,” said Sloane in her best menacing voice.
     
    “No worries, Sloane. You’re a good friend.”
     
    With that, Sloane hung up, and Brant hit the end button on his phone. That is when he saw it.
     
    “One missed call… Who would be calling me at this hour, other than Ms. Jet-Setter herself?”
     
    Holly.
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Eight
    One Missed Call
     
     
     
    December 23, 2013
    Denver, Colorado
     
     
    Brant’s heart began to quicken as he listened to Holly’s voicemail. He was so excited to hear her voice, but also worried at how upset she sounded. He knew what Beckman had pulled, and she sounded distraught. He put the phone down on the restaurant table as a nervous look crept across his handsome face.
     
    “Who was that, Brant?” asked Doris, Brant’s mother, who was sitting at the table across from him.
     
    Brant’s parents Doris and Harry had met Brant and the kids at the airport and had taken them out to dinner at Harry’s favorite restaurant, The Beef Barn.
     
    “Holly’s friend Sloane,” said Brant.
     
    Doris raised an eyebrow, “Is that really a good idea?”
     
    “Trust me, it’s not what you think,” explained Brant with a chuckle. He continued, “I’ll be back. I have to make a call.”
     
    Brant dialed Holly’s cell phone number but no one was picking up. He dialed the house phone, but again, no answer. An awful sense of déjà vu crept over Brant.
     
    She just called. Why isn’t she picking up?
     
    As he walked into the restaurant, Brant had a million things going through his mind at once, but he knew his course of action.
     
    “Hey Pop…” Brant said to his father. Harry raised his eyebrow at his son.
     
    “What?”
     
    “Slight change of plans…”
                 
     
    *****
     
     
    “Shit…” complained Holly as her cell phone shut off due to a dead battery.
     
    She ran for her charger.
     
    “Where the hell did I put it?!”
     
    Holly ran downstairs looking for her phone charger. It wasn’t in the kitchen, or the living room. Frantically, she ran back upstairs and checked her bedroom. That is when she remembered that she had forgotten her charger at work.
     
    Great .
     
    She scrambled into Randy’s room hoping that he had left his extra charger. Of course not. Suddenly the house phone began to ring. She scrambled out of Randy’s room and began looking for the cordless phone that Tressa had failed to put back on the charger. Holly rushed into Tressa’s bedroom.
     
    “Oh, my God, this room!” yelled Holly as she encountered her daughter’s room. There were clothes everywhere. It looked as if a pink and purple hurricane had twisted through the room. Holly assumed that when Tressa was packing her suitcase, she didn’t know what to pack so she just left the undesirables strewn all over the floor. Her bed was unmade, and her closet and bureau appeared as if they had thrown up all over the