Hospital Lights and Broken Promises
Poe Emerson
Hospital Lights and Broken Promises
When the phone doesn't ring, everything shatters.
Lexie Millhouse has built a life on control—successful corporate attorney, beautiful home, seven-year marriage to the man she thought was her forever. But lately, Mayer has been more ghost than husband. Late nights at the office. Silenced phone. That new junior analyst who laughs too loud at his jokes and touches his arm too often.
When Lexie's father collapses with a heart attack, she needs her husband. She calls. And calls. And calls.
Mayer is three drinks in at a downtown bar, phone on silent, while Hattie Wells leans close and whispers about "work." He doesn't see the seventeen missed calls. Doesn't hear the voicemails that go from worried to desperate to broken.
By the time he finally checks his phone, Lexie is alone in a hospital waiting room, wondering if her father will survive the night—and if her marriage already died hours ago.
Some silences can't be forgiven. Some absences can't be explained away.
But maybe, just maybe, some loves are worth fighting for.
A dark contemporary romance about the moment everything falls apart—and the brutal work of putting it back together. HEA guaranteed. No cheating. Dual POV. Very explicit content.
