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“Where’d you go for coffee? Colombia?” she asked, managing a small smile as I passed her the cup. “Thank you.”
“How’d it go?”
“Fine,” she said, gaze sliding away. “The doctor said I have whiplash, but no concussion. And my ribs are bruised, not broken.”
That wasn’t what I meant and we both knew it, but I said nothing.
“Bruised feels just about as bad as broken,” I said, shrugging. “No foam collar?” I asked.
“He said that a lot of doctors think the collars make it worse, but I might want one for sleep.”
“Any other instructions?”
“They gave me a pain pill, and told me to follow up with my primary, maybe for some muscle relaxers,” she said.
“So, you just look a fuckuva lot worse than you are?” I asked, getting a little snort out of her.
“Gee, thanks.”
“Just giving it to you straight.”
“I guess I should appreciate that,” she said.
“Meds kick in yet?”
“No,” she said, shaking her head. “And everything is starting to hurt at once.”
I glanced around, then moved to close her door.
“What are you doing?”
“Let’s be real here for a minute,” I said, gaze sliding to hers.
“Real?” she repeated, her eyes going to her coffee cup.
“You can’t go back to your place in the woods.”
“What?” she asked, head jerking up, then eyes going small at the pain the whiplash likely caused.
“Come on, Mills,” I said, shaking my head. “Clearly, you’re into something. Something bad enough that someone tried to kill you for it. If there’s a chance this fuck finds out you didn’t die, you’re a sitting duck in a hunting cabin. And Storm might be a good dog, but he’s not big enough to fight off an attacker. Yet.”
She didn’t even try to deny it.
“I have nowhere else to go,” she admitted, voice small.
It was stupid as fuck.
I had no authority to offer her protection.
But I couldn’t seem to stop the words from escaping my lips.
“Come to the city with me,” I said.
“What?” she asked, those pretty gray eyes going wide.
“The city. It’s the perfect place to hide. Tons of people. Everyone minding their own damn business.”
“I don’t even know you,” she said.
