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Marcus’s face went stony. “Then let’s make sure it doesn’t come to that.”
“Contact me when you have something.” Logan turned on his heel to return to her room. He found the change of clothes and new phone in the sleep chair. The Zeke fairy had come through.
He went into the small bathroom in her room and peeled out of his clothes. He took a few minutes to brush his teeth and washed up. He was willing to hand over his royalty check for the month for a shower, but didn’t want to leave Izzy that long.
When he returned to her room, Dr. Marra was checking on Izzy’s hands.
“Hey, doc. How’s she doing?”
“Good. She’s tried to wake a few times, so that makes me very optimistic.”
“They keep drugging her as soon as she comes around.”
“I’m going to lighten her meds today and see if we can get her to come around. If she’d had no movement, I would have worried. I’m sorry I didn’t make myself clearer.”
“And her eyes?”
“She had some minor scratches to her corneas from heavy glass debris. I’m here now to take off the bandages. You’ll see a nurse every two hours for drops. Eyes are amazingly resilient, but not if they’re dry.”
“So she’s not blind?”
“No. She’ll look li
ke she was on a weeklong bender, but then again so do you.”
Logan couldn’t help but smile. Relief took a few of the bricks off his chest that he’d been carrying around. “I think they’d frown on me smuggling beer into the hospital.”
“You’d be surprised.” She pulled out scissors that had an odd angle to them and started snipping the fine gauze. She gently pulled away the socket-sized pads and dumped everything in the biohazard bag.
Izzy’s face had a little extra pink to it, like she’d been out on the water for an afternoon, but otherwise she only had some minor cuts. Dr. Marra pulled out drops from her lab coat and quickly checked her eyes and did the drops at the same time.
“Healing nicely.”
“And the rest?”
“Her hands will take a little longer. It was a flash burn. We got to her in time that I don’t think she’ll need skin grafting, just a lot of careful bandaging for a few weeks.”
“I’ll make sure she has it.”
Dr. Marra gave him a quick look, but didn’t comment. “We’re pumping her full of platelets to get that liver back in shape. Be patient. The fact that she’s alive is pretty much a miracle.” She moved her blanket aside and checked the bandage along her right side.
Logan swallowed. “I know. Her best friend wasn’t so lucky. I couldn’t get to her.”
“I wasn’t aware that rockstar equaled superhero. Must have been a different movie.”
“Nic was literally ten feet away.” He sighed and brushed away a lock of her hair. “I could only get to her.”
“I’ve seen the footage of that explosion. We’re lucky there were only a few casualties. If her store had been full of people, it would have been far worse.”
Logan lowered himself into a chair beside Izzy on the other side of the bed. “No one was supposed to be in the store.”
Had it been on purpose? Had whomever set the explosion done it because Izzy had gone back to the store? Or had they done it counting on the store to be empty?
Right now, it didn’t matter to him.
Isabella had gotten hurt, regardless. But it could help figure out motive. Had Aimee just wanted to scare him into compliance again? Or had she wanted Isabella dead, period?
The fact that she’d been behind the counter was the only thing that had saved her.
