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“There’s enough room for one in the ambulance with us.”
I stay frozen to the floor when realization hits—I’m not going to be able to stay with her. Her mom will be going. There’s no reason why I should feel hurt that I won’t be going with her, but I do. I don’t ever want to leave her.
Feeling hands on my arm, I turn and face her mom. She cups my face in her hands and says, “You go with her.” I shake my head. She’s her mom. “Yes. I’m going to follow, but you need to be with her. It’s you she’ll want to see when she comes around. No arguing. Just go and get in the ambulance with her.”
Not needing telling twice, I ignore the glare Reece is throwing in my direction and shoot out of the door to follow them.
~*~*~*~
Staring out of the window on the third floor of the hospital, I don’t really see anything. All my thoughts are about Mara and wondering what the hell they are doing that’s taking so damn long to assess her. We’ve been here about an hour now and the not knowing is driving me crazy.
Mara’s mom, sisters and brother arrived within minutes of us arriving and we seem to have taken over the waiting room here at the hospital. Reece is keeping his distance from me, which is a good thing right now, but I’d rather have him by my side than miles away.
Phoenix is here with Thalia, and had to pull his new wife away from me not too long ago. I appreciate her wanting to comfort me, but the only one I want close to me is Mara and that isn’t going to happen any time soon.
It kills me that she’s suffering alone and doesn’t have anyone in there with her—holding her hand.
“The Kincaid family?”
Turning, a guy in scrubs is addressing the room at large, and my heart stops. What if she isn’t going to be okay? How the fuck am I going to handle that?
I stay where I am, but the guy starts talking too quietly for me to hear so I walk toward them and hear him mention surgery.
“Why does she need surgery?”
He pauses as if undecided whether or not to talk.
“It’s okay,” Cindy says, “he’s family.”
Reece stays quiet but his eyes are filled with something I can’t quite decipher.
“She’s broken her arm in a couple of places and she needs to have a pin inserted in order for it to mend quickly, and now I need to get back to her, but is someone named Donovan here?”
“That’s me.”
“Follow me, she keeps asking for you.”
“When can we see her?” Reece asks.
“We’re getting her ready for the surgery so when she’s come round and been t
ransferred to her own room, but she’s only started cooperating with us after I promised to come and find Donovan. She’s basically refusing the surgery until she’s seen him.”
“Me and you are having words once she’s okay,” Reece growls.
I’m sure it’s only Callie’s presence that’s preventing him from starting anything with me right now, and for that I’m thankful. The last thing Mara needs is to see her brother and myself a bit worse for wear because of our fists.
I nod at him and then follow the doctor through the doors to go to my girl.
Walking into the room, she has my heart beating franticly in my chest. She’s smiling at me. How can she smile at me while obviously in so much pain?
The longer I stand staring at her, the smile she has on her face just for me starts to slip, which gets my feet moving.
As soon as I’m close enough she grabs my hand and holds on tight. Tears form in her eyes, which probably match mine.
A nurse shoves me into a chair that she’s just placed at the side of the bed. My knees were about to give way with relief anyway.
“I’m okay,” she whispers.
