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“My guess? She’ll feel no different to a come down off a massive bender. It might be rough, but it’s no worse than a brutal hangover.”
“But you don’t fucking know, do you?” Ven explodes from his lair in the shadows.
Doc looks at him and inclines his head. Giving him a respectful pause. “No, until I get a tox screen back, I won’t know. But I’ll be sure to give you the results as soon as they’re ready.”
“How long?” My instincts keep a close watch on Ven. The last thing I need is for him to put a bullet in the skull of the man who is about to go run emergency bloods for us at this time of the morning.
He checks his watch. “By the time I get back to Port Macabre…give me a couple of hours?”
“Fine.”
Doc then crosses back over to the bed, and bends onto one knee. Taking one of her hands, he tests her pulse and seems satisfied. Then he flashes a torch in her eyes again. “Fox, honey, can you talk to me?”
I have trusted this man countless times, and he’s one of our men within the ranks of the Anguis, but hearing him call my girl honey is setting him on thin fucking ice.
Especially when she stirs and makes a groaning noise, trying to shield her eyes from the light.
Should I be relieved?
Right now, I don’t know what to feel.
“Easy, baby girl.” Ky is helping her move to a better position on the pillow.
Ven appears beside the bed, with arms crossed, hovering.
“How are you feeling?” Doc fishes some painkillers out of his bag and deposits them on the bedside table. I’ll be swapping those with ones I know one hundred percent are safe, before she gets a chance to take them.
It’s not that I don’t trust Doc…but…
Soft, pained noises come from her direction, and then she shifts up onto her elbows, peering through groggy eyes at the man crouched beside her.
“Holy shit, you look just like that actor.” Her slurred words are heavy on her tongue.
Doc chuckles.
“At least she can talk. That’s a good sign, right?” Ky runs a hand through his loose hair.
“You know the guy…he’s hot…older…everyone’s dreammm Daddy.” She croons.
My eyes flick over to Ky, and his eyebrows shoot up. She’s high as a fucking kite.
“Is this how they pick you for your little club?” A loopy grin forms on her face. “You all gotta murder people and look like you could make ovaries explode with a single glance?”
Doc shakes his head. Yeah, he’s a good-looking guy, even I can see that—older than me by at least five years, give or take.
What I do not like is that Foxglove has noticed him in that way. Absolutely fucking not.
“I guess I’ll take the compliment.” He straightens up, and she’s making weird oohing and ahhing noises.
It’s time for this guy to fucking go.
“My friend is single. Emerald. Emmmeraaaaald—her name is so pretty, isn’t it?” Her head lolls back on the pillow. “But I already have a Daddy…and a naughty boy…and a filthy wolf.” She dissolves into a fit of giggles.
There’s a shit-eating grin on Doc’s face, and I’m going to have to smack it off him if he ever dares bring this conversation up again.
“Bye, Fox.” He raises an eyebrow at me as he heads out the door.
“Get those bloods done,” I growl at him.
