chapter 14

When Liam finished getting dressed after his shower, he debated going downstairs for coffee or heading up to the loft to check in with his office. Coffee won, mostly because he hadn't gotten much sleep the previous night.

Sharing a bed with Eva had been anything but restful.

He walked out of his bedroom, then paused at the landing to look at the picture he'd mostly avoided since arriving at the house. It showed him and his friends during college. When everything had been easy and they'd called themselves the Six Heavens.

Emmett laughed into the camera, because he'd always enjoyed whatever he was doing. Ryder and Jackson-twins who couldn't be more different-held Ian in a headlock, while he and Kevin poured beer over the group.

He knew that just outside the view of the camera sat a teenage girl on a blanket, her head buried in a book. Because Eva had never quite fit in.

Emmett had worried about her, especially after he'd found out he was dying. That's when he'd asked Liam to take care o