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“Ian!”
“You don’t need to be embarrassed. Jack doesn’t care if you sleep with a stuffie, do you, Jack?”
“Nope. I think it’s cute.” Jack winked at her with a smile and Ian felt her relax against him.
He sent Jack a grateful look. The other man shrugged as she pulled Ziggy from her handbag. Then she turned into him, holding Ziggy. Glancing down at her, he saw that she’d slid her thumb into her mouth. He pulled the blanket slightly higher to shield her in case someone came in.
Not that anyone in this hospital would ever say something to her about sleeping with a toy or sucking her thumb.
Not if they wanted to keep their jobs anyway.
As she fell asleep in his arms, satisfaction filled him.
This felt so right.
Like she was meant to be his.
He glanced over at Jack, who nodded at him.
Theirs.
He nodded back. Not the moment to tell her. And they needed to talk to Jameson first and sort things out. But Ian wanted her. So did Jack.
If Jameson didn’t . . . well, maybe it was time to think about finally moving on from his dream of where the three of them shared the same woman.
22
Maggie woke up feeling warm and disorientated.
Why had she fallen asleep sitting up? And why did she feel so safe? So cozy?
She shifted her head, looking around. Tension filled her. Where was she?
“You’re all right, Little girl,” Ian told her. “You’re safe. You’re at the hospital. Remember? William fell down the stairs.”
She gasped, sitting up straighter and pushing at the blanket.
“Easy,” Ian soothed, pulling the blanket off. “Everything is all right.”
“Uncle Willy?” She glanced over at the man still asleep on the bed. Why wasn’t he waking up? “How long was I asleep?”
She shouldn’t have fallen asleep at all. What had she been thinking? What if he’d woken up needing her?
Except Jack had grown all bossy on her and demanded that she nap or go home. And she’d been too tired to fight him.
“Nothing happened. You needed the sleep.”
She climbed off Ian’s lap, embarrassed that she’d fallen asleep on him. “Are your legs numb?”
“Of course not.”
“You should have moved me off you.”
“I would have sat there forever if it meant you got more sleep,” he told her as he stood.
Crazy man.
She blushed as she glanced around the room at anything but him. “Where’s Jack?”
