Free Broken Free (The Broken Series) by Azure Boone Page A

choked out on the way to the doctor’s visit. Daniel had managed to talk Sofia into going alone on this trip. It hadn’t taken much and he knew why now. She needed to vent.
    “Do about what?”
    “About what? Dara, Sarah, Seth! Babies!”
    “That’s not your issue, that’s Seth’s.”
    “No, it’s kinda my issue too Daniel, with Dara being my best friend, you know?”
    “All you can do is be supportive.”
    “How? She hates Sarah now. I am not good at handling that, I mean I don’t think it’s fair to Sarah that she treats her bad but I don’t know how to stop it.”
    “How is she treating her bad?”
    Crap. Sofia had a suspicion that Dara only did it in front of her. “She just…she treats her like a slave, like a second class citizen, mocking her English in a “funny way.” Sofia quoted the air with fingers. “And I know Sarah sort of presents herself that way but I mean it’s not right, she’s just confused. Sometimes I think I should show Dara that video just so she quits treating her like shit.”
    “ Don’t you dare,” Daniel said, his voice hard.
    “I know,” she mumbled, undoing her seatbelt and looking around the parking garage. “Are you sure this is the right level? Isn’t it on the fourth floor?”
    “Yes, but remember they don’t have an entrance to th e building on that level?”
    “Oh yeah, I keep forgetting.”
    “Hold on, let me help you out.”
    Sofia opened her door with a snort as Daniel hurried around the car.
    “Gee thanks,” he said, taking her hand and helping her out.
    “What? I just opened the door! I’m kinda sick of everybody running to do everything for me and I’m only four months pregnant.”
    He pulled her into his arms and moaned like he hadn’t touched her in forever. She melted in his embrace, letting the roam of his sensual hands relieve her. She wrapped her arms around him and rested against his chest. “I love you baby,” he said next to her ear.
    The amount of emotion in his voice just…
    A sob escaped her and Daniel pulled her even closer, wrapping more of his arms around her as he rushed to soothe her with various cooings, his tone sounding like she were the most pitiful thing ever. She felt ridiculous but that didn’t register with her emotions, the more he cooed the more she gushed.
    “Let it out, that’s it, you don’t want to keep that in, this is good baby,” he whispered , “you’re fine.”
    Sob sob sob. Sob.
    Good grief. Good , good, grief.
    After Sofia finally got her shit together she went through the doctor without any more break downs. It was difficult with the way Daniel spoke so tenderly toward her and about her. Like she were just a fragile thing. Made her feel fragile.
    The doctor counteract ed it with exuberant confidence and bubbly energy. It helped keep her together.
    “What do you think we should do about Sarah?” Sofia asked on the way back home. “Oh, can we stop for orange sherbet? I’ve been so hungry for it.”
    “Absolutely. What do you mean do about Sarah?”
    “About her wanting to visit Seth?”
    “Oh. Right. Well, I don’t think it’s necessary.”
    Sofia looked at Daniel, wondering why he was so confident. “Oh?”
    “I called my father. He said he’d make a few calls. He’ll get my brother out.”
    Sofia’s mouth dropped and she stared at him for endless seconds. “How?”
    “He’s got the pull and the connections, that’s how.”
    Sofia couldn’t believe her ears. “When…I mean how…”
    “I never told you because I was hoping to not involve the bastard. I also never told you that the lawyer said that movie isn’t going to help right away. If she confesses, she’ll go to jail and await trial along with Seth. And the video is no guarantee either of them will be acquitted.” He sighed. “So I called him.”
    “What…did he say?”
    “That he’d do it.”
    Sofia waited for the rest of the story, annoyed he wasn’t coming out with it on his own. “Hello? Details