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“Rest. We don’t need to talk about it now,” he says.
Everything is hazy. I can’t seem to put together how I ended up in this bed. Or why he’s here. Not that I’m complaining. Who complains about a gorgeous, spunky guy showing up in their hospital room? Not me. No siree. No way. Adira would just die if he were here. “Hey.”
Rogue Maddox glances down at me. “What?”
“Hey.” I crook my finger to encourage him to come closer.
“Are you going to try to kiss me again?”
“No.” I shake my head.
“Okay.” His hands on either side of my head on the pillow, he leans in.
“Did they send you?” They must have. I must be awfully sick.
“Who?”
“The Make-A-Wish Foundation.” I giggle. “It’s not every day the man of your dreams tells you you’re his girl.”
"Oh, she has lines.” He chuckles and the lines on his face aren’t so deep.
“So?” I persist.
“No, they didn’t send me.” He shakes his head. The roughness is back in his voice.
I don’t like it. It makes my chest ache. “Then how did we end up here?”
“I found you. I called for help. I had to do first aid on you.”
“F-first aid? On me?” Wow.
“Yes.” His cobalt gaze is a whirl of emotions. His thumb rubs back and forth over my knuckles. “You had me worried sick.”
My gorgeous boyfriend—he called me his girl so now he’s my boyfriend, right?—was worried about me. I stare at his hand holding mine. It’s intimate and it makes my heart all fluttery. His touch is so real but everything feels like it’s happening to somebody else. If this is a dream I don’t want to wake up. Ever. Ever. Ever.
“I thought I was going to lose you,” he says. “I thought I was too late.”
“Oh my gosh.” It sounds like whatever happened is bad. Really bad. “Why? What happened?”
“Christ, Ivy.” His glittering gaze catches mine. “I was so scared. Do you know how much you mean to me? I don’t know what I would have done if I’d lost you.”
“I—” Wow. This is definitely happening to me. He said my name. He knows my name. Rogue Maddox really is my boyfriend. And he says the sweetest things. Such a dreamboat.
A woman wearing scrubs enters the room. “Oh, you’re awake.”
“I’m so awake.” I smile at the nurse. “Isn’t he the sexiest thing you’ve seen in your life?”
The nurse smiles as she makes eye contact with my boyfriend. “Still recovering from the anesthesia?”
“Think so,” he says.
“Look at those abs. Have you ever seen anything like it before?” I whisper at the woman as I reach out to trail my fingers up and down them.
“Uh-uh.” He catches my hand and puts it back on my lap. “Be a good girl.”
“So I can look, but I can’t touch?” I press my teeth into my bottom lip. The way he called me a good girl did something to make my thighs melt. “Such a tease.”
“How are you feeling, Ivy?” The nurse moves around the bed. Starts checking her tablet.
