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He pulled a face. “No denying that.”
“Shit.” I blew out a breath. “How’s your brother?”
“For the moment, they’ve gotten the bleeding under control.”
“I’m relieved to hear it.”
Nyx just nodded. “By the time he’s ready to be discharged, they’ll be letting him out a free man.” He cracked his knuckles. “I know I’m not the only brother who’s worrying about how that’ll go.”
“The Sparrows?”
“What’s to stop them from coming after him again?” Nyx confirmed.
“Will it be easier to keep an eye on him when he’s back?” I stared around the waiting room. “I can make sure there’s a Five Pointer on guard here—”
“That’s not necessary,” Nyx rumbled. “Appreciate it, but we protect our own.” He grimaced. “When we can.” Meaning that his bro had been left wide open to attack because he’d been the only Sinner in his unit in Rikers.
I wasn’t insulted because I knew, if the situations were reversed, we’d have the same attitude on this subject.
“We’re going to be looking into how this went down, don’t you worry. All of our prison guards who are on our payroll were conveniently off shift at the same time.”
Nyx’s brows lowered. “Christ. The Sparrows really are everywhere.” He swiped a hand over his mouth. “My Old Lady’s pregnant, O’Donnelly. I really don’t want to spend the first eight years of that kid’s life in jail... you know what I’m saying?”
“I do. None of us are going to jail.” It just felt like the Sparrows were breathing down our fucking necks no matter which way we turned.
“You can’t promise that.”
“No, I can’t,” I agreed, “but I know that I’m going to be working on ways to bring the fuckers down.”
“We are too.”
“Then we need to make sure we’re coordinating. Where’s Padraig anyway?” He was our usual liaison.
“He’s back in... West Orange.” The pause was just enough of a hesitation to let me know he was lying. “We had another situation.”
“Situations—they never let up, do they?”
Nyx caught my eye. “They fucking don’t.”
“Not asking for details, but you need our help?”
He shook his head. “Again, appreciate the offer, but no. Everything’s handled.”
I nodded. “We’re all in the same boat together.”
Nyx blew out a breath. “Let’s just hope that fucker don’t sink.”
We were both on the same page where that was concerned.
“You won’t hear me—”
Before I could finish the sentence, alarms started blaring, and nurses and doctors rushed in from out of nowhere, piling into the kid’s room.
Fuck.
He was coding.
Gritting my teeth, I got to my feet as Hawk, Indy, and Giulia ran in, rushing over to their men’s sides, and knowing this wasn’t my place, that this was a time for family, I got the fuck out of there with Forrest at my back.
