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TheguysandIput our clothes back on. Disappointment weighs on each of their faces.
If I’m being totally honest with myself, I’m sort of glad I got called in, although I feel bad that Gram is having another attack. She misses her soulmate so dearly.
How do you know when you find your soulmate? I plan on asking Gram. She generally needs someone to chat with after her episodes. I’m not sure how to ask if she thinks it’s possible to have more than one soulmate though.
Klayton throws me over his shoulder. “If you aren’t back by six, we’re coming to get you.”
It takes a second for me to orient my upside-down position. I’ll chalk this up to another new experience. Part of me is curious if they’d really show up at the hospital. Part of me thinks it’s best I don’t find out.
I direct Vance to grab my purse as Sebastian opens doors for Klayton to march me through the house, right out the front door to my car.
Movement catches my attention at one of the houses across our little lake. It’s Madison. She’s far enough away, I can’t see her expression, but her body language hints at anger or frustration. She’s had a lot going on lately, and if what my dad says he saw is correct, that she’s hooking up with her ex-boyfriend’s dad, she may have finally gotten to the nasty bottom of that can of worms.
“You better put me down.”
“And if I say never?”
“I’d know that you’re a liar because you can’t have sex with me like this.” I crack up at myself.
A sharp slap to my ass gives me a surprise sting and also stirs up lustful feelings. Hmm…another thing to explore.
Vance says, “Our mom didn’t tell us our sister was sassy.”
Klayton sets me down gently beside my car.
“Is that the thing you’re most shocked your mom didn’t know about me?”
He swats my ass again then pins me against the car. “Now that you know what you get for being sassy, watch that mouth of yours.”
I pull a compact out of my purse and open the mirror to taunt them. It takes a second for the guys to catch on.
Klayton hoists me over his shoulder again. Another slap lands on my butt cheek. Yep, I like that.
Sebastian adds a gentler swat, “I’ve always heard younger sisters can be annoying.”
“Be ready when I get home.”
Klayton lowers me. “Looks like you’re home already.”
It’s harder than I imagined to tear myself away from them but Gram needs me.
When I pull up to the hospital, Doctor Shepherd is pulling out of the parking lot, and Callie, his daughter’s childhood best friend is following him. Coincidence? I’ve seen them together a few times—enough that I’ve put the pieces together. Doctor Shepherd’s daughter isn’t the only one with shenanigans going on.
I run my fingers through my hair. I’m not as fixed up as normal, which might help keep this visit short. I cringe as I head toward the entrance. Am I walking funny or does it just feel like I am? I’ll hope for the latter.
Everyone will already be suspicious that I’m eager to get home. Usually, I hang out—the hospital is my home away from home. I’ll stick to the truth, or at least an omissive version of it.My dad has tasked me with getting to know my new stepbrothers.
The unsettling feeling that I’m being watched wiggles to the surface as I step from the parking lot onto the curb. It’s creepy, not like I’m nervous that I’m walking funny, or that one of the guys followed me. That would make me horny. All joking aside, I can’t shake the eerie feeling.
I turn around. Nothing seems out of place until movement at the far end of the parking lot catches my attention. A guy on a motorcycle pulls away, tossing up a bunch of gravel in his haste. Gravel? He’s not in the concrete parking lot. He was parked outside of it.
Probably nothing. People come and go from the hospital all the time. I didn’t recognize the patch on his vest. Something yellow. My mind flashes back to last night at the bar. The guy Torch threw out.
Too late to get a look at him, he already sped away.
I shudder and rush inside. How big of a coincidence is it that he might have been here? I sweet-talk Gloria at Intake to let me browse the files of everyone who’s been admitted today. Do I really expect to see a mysterious biker’s name on the list?
It’s been quiet. An upset stomach, a broken arm, and Gram. She was the only one who stayed. The other two were released earlier.
