“He’s in recovery right now. I’ll send a nurse when he’s in his room,” the doctor says.
I ignore everyone when they try to talk to me. I stare off into space thinking of how close I came to losing him. He’s still going to be in a coma, and we don’t know if there is any damage to his brain.
I hate that everything is up in the air right now.
I just want to wake up and find out that this is all a bad dream.
“Baby, we can go to his room now,” Maverick whispers in my ear. Maverick’s voice jolts me out of my thoughts.
Maverick grabs my hand, and we follow the nurse to Ice’s room.
I am flooded with even more fear when I see him hooked up to machines, and the road rash on his face. I don’t care if he scars from that. He will always be good looking to me.
“Fuck,” Maverick hisses out after seeing our man.
I sit down in a chair close to Ice’s bed and grab his hand.
“I’m so sorry, please come back to me,” I whisper with my voice cracking. I drop my head to the bed.
At some point, Maverick picks me up and puts me on his lap, but I don’t let go of Ice’s hand the whole time.
I know I need to snap out of it; this isn’t good for the babies, but I can’t seem to make myself. Ice means more to me than I even realized.
“Button, you need to eat,” he says roughly in my ear.
“I’m not leaving him,” I mumble.
“You don’t need to leave him, but you need to eat. I’ll even help you,” he says, and I nod my head.
Dani pushes a brown paper bag towards us and helps us grab the food out.
She gives me a sad smile, but I don’t respond as I don’t want to waste one moment before turning my attention back to Ice.
Maverick “Viking”
Seeing my wife struggle is hard.
She barely takes her eyes off of Ice. I think the only reason I can get her to eat is because of the babies. She doesn’t want to leave his side.
Fuck, I don’t want to leave his side.
I just want him to wake up and look at us.
I knew we both wanted him to be a permanent part of our lives, but this just hits home at how much we want him to be.
Those hours waiting to hear about him were excruciating.
I do everything I can to make sure Ana has everything she needs. I arrange for another bed to be brought in. I already know we won’t be leaving, at least until he wakes up.
Everyone has been so great with making sure we don’t have to worry about anything as well.
We will get through this.
We have to.
Chapter Seventeen
Levi “Ice”
