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I choked out a sob. “Nice everything.”
“Don’t cry for me.”
“I’m not.” I forced a brighter smile. “Your nose is pancaked again.”
“Hmm.” He grunted out a breath. “What’s new.”
“I think it’s sexy.” Sniffling, I lifted his hand to my mouth and kissed all of his torn knuckles. “You’ve got the roughed-up bad boy look down to a T.”
“How’s my baby?”
“Still cooking.”
“How’s my other baby?”
“I’m okay, Joe,” I said. “We’re both fine.”
“Good.” His eyelid fluttered shut. “I need you to be okay.”
“I am okay, Joe.”
“Both of you.”
“Both of us are fine.”
“I need it to stay that way,” he whispered, giving my hand a squeeze. “It’s important to me.”
Desperately fighting down the urge I had to climb onto the bed and hold him, I stood up and hovered close instead. “You’re important to us.” Leaning down, I pressed a lingering kiss to his clammy forehead. “You’re everything to us.”
“I want the baby, queen.”
Sniffling, I nodded. “I know, stud.”
“I heard the heartbeat.”
“Yeah, you did.”
“It’s really in there.”
“Uh-huh.”
“We made a baby.”
“Yeah, Joe, we did.”
“I’m scared.”
“I know you are. It’s okay.”
“When can I get out of here, Aoife?”
“The doctors want to keep you in for a few days for observation,” I explained, fingers trailing over his swollen face. “We’re just waiting on a bed upstairs to become available.”
“No,” he groaned, shaking his head. “No, no, fuck that. I’m going home.”
“You’re going to stay here,” I warned, snatching up the hand he was attempting to use to pull his IV line out. “You have one hell of a concussion, Joe. The doctor explained it to me. You need to be here, okay?”
“I need to see Shannon.”
