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“Okay.” He put Ava down and she took Isaac’s hand. She knew him. He was a friend of her mother and Uncle Brett. She led him to the porch while Luka walked back to Skylar. She had woken and wasn’t happy.
“Baby, are you okay?”
“I have a hellacious headache but I’m okay.” They were wrestling a neck brace on her. “I don’t need all this.”
“Skylar, you were out for a long time. You’re going to the ER,” Luka insisted.
“What happened?”
“You fell off Majestic,” he told her.
She looked puzzled. Skylar she didn’t fall off horses. She apparently didn’t remember the gunshots. “Don’t worry about it baby. I’m right behind you. I’ll have Brett watch Ava.”
She tried to nod but the neck brace wouldn’t let her. The boys loaded her onto a backboard and then onto a gurney. Then they carried her to the ambulance. Brett stood on the porch with Ava in his arms and Isaac next to them. Luka went to them.
“Brett, I need my keys. I’m going to the hospital with Skylar. Would you stay with Ava?”
“Sure man. I’ll keep Little Mess. We’ll be fine.”
Isaac followed Luka into the house. “Luka, I’ll need Ava to come to the station and make an official statement.”
“Later after I know Skylar is all right.”
“Brett could bring her. The sooner the better.”
Luka grabbed his keys from the front table. “Whatever you think.” He went to the porch with Isaac. “Brett, Isaac wants Ava at the station to make an official statement.” He took his daughter from him. He squeezed her hard and kissed her.
“I’ll follow him to the station,” Brett told him. “I’ll bring Ava back here. I called Mom. She’s meeting you at the ER.”
“Thanks Brett.”
“Ramona is on her way here to be with me and Ava. I’ll ask her to meet me at the station.”
“That’s good.” He looked at Ava. “Daddy has to go the hospital with Momma.”
“Is she all right?”
“She will be,” he told her. “She was awake and fighting about going to the ER, so you know she’s going to be all right.”
Ava laughed. Then she nodded because she really wanted to cry. “Why’d he do that to Momma?”
“He’s angry Ava. Sometimes people don’t always do the right thing when they are angry.”
“Cause she broke up with him?”
“Yeah baby,” he told her. “I have to go now.” The ambulance was pulling away. “You go with Uncle Brett.”
He handed Ava back to Brett. “Call me if you need anything.”
Isaac walked down the steps with Luka. “We’ve already put out an APB on our Mayor, Luka.”
He stopped walking. “Don’t let him see Ava at the station.”
“We won’t. We’ll protect her,” Isaac reassured Luka following him down the stairs.
“Thanks.”
“Go Luka,” Isaac told him. “We’ll take care of Ava.”
