Rayna was lying in her bed, tossing and turning, doing anything but sleeping. Her lips were still tingling from Deacon's fiery kiss, and in her head she kept replaying the moment. Him pushing her against the counter, pressing the ring into her hand, everything he'd said. "It's you, me, Maddie, and Daphne." His words still ringing in her ears.
Suddenly Rayna's phone lit up and began vibrating on her nightstand. It had been viciously ringing for the first few hours since she Luke's proposal that she had to shut the damn thing off or she swore it was going to explode. Rayna glanced at the clock, it was just shy of three in the morning. She had been receiving congratulatory messages and correspondence from the press all asking questions about every detail of the wedding that hadn't even crossed her mind. She could barely think about the when and the where and everything in between when Maddie and Daphne's devastated faces kept flashing in her head. Rayna turned her attention back to the phone ringing in her hand when she saw it was Scarlett's name lit up across the top.
No matter what Scarlett had decided to do with her career she was family to Rayna and always would be. It she was calling this late it must be important. Without hesitation answered the call.
"Scarlett, is everything alright?"
"I'm sorry to be calling you this late, you must be exhausted after tonight, and I'm sorry not to have gotten the chance to congratulate you but, something's happened." Scarlett managed to say in a shaky voice.
"What do you mean? Are you okay?" Rayna asked, concern coursing through her body.
"It's not me, it's Deacon."
Rayna's breath caught in her throat, and it felt as if someone had hit her in the stomach with a metal bat. Her mind was racing in a million different directions, but one thought screamed louder than the others. Seeing Luke propose, it was too much, he was drinking again.
Before Rayna could further think through this possibility Scarlett's voice sounded again through the line, "There was an accident, they don't know if he's going to be okay."