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She cut the call, and Mort set the helicopter down without turning off the rotors. Mort said through the headset, “I am setting this thing down at the airfield. When you want to head home, use the home button on the sat phone.”
Penny watched the gurney pushed toward the helicopter. “Great. Where will you be?”
He chuckled. “I am going for a dip.”
Penny helped the medics get Ven onto the white sheets, and she followed them into hospital.
There was one face she recognized and one that she didn’t. Ven was taken to the diagnostic centre to find out if the bullets were still in place and what kind of damage they had done. Penny looked at the stunning man about the same height as Ven and the giant jaguar on two feet. “Hello, Your Majesty. Reynaldo.”
Reynaldo made a soft whining sound as they watched through the glass.
“Well, suddenly, her description of your rut makes a certain sense.”
He snorted.
Syar leaned his head against his alpha. “He’s stuck like this. Will be until Ven tells him that it is only evening wear. If the idiots had hidden on the island, we never would have had to call you. He would be picking them out of his teeth.”
Reynaldo grunted.
Penny watched the ultrasounds, the looks of surprise, and then they picked up a familiar wand. They spoke to Ven, and she nodded, and then the internal scan started. The doctors spoke, and Ven fainted.
Penny wanted to rush to her side, but Ven’s mates raced in and got in the way, but then the doctors spoke to them, and they looked wobbly. When Reynaldo’s clawed hand reached for Ven’s belly, Penny’s knees wobbled. Jax and Thor made the same move on her... constantly. There were some cells building a person in there.
Holy shit.
* * * *
Ven woke in a medical gown in a quiet room with familiar faces on either side. “Uh, I didn’t think that this called for an audience.”
She found the bed control and had it sit her up. She smiled. “Nova. Enjoying the deep blue sea?”
Nova smiled and glanced at the one stranger in the mix. “Definitely. Oh, Ven, this is Mort. He was the pilot that got us to the yacht.”
“Thank you. They are good swimmers, but I am not sure how much time I had.” She looked at Mort. “No one was wearing a mask.”
He winced. “Glad I could be of service.”
Penny was there and smiling. “I just wanted to say I am glad that Jax was there to slime you.”
Jax grinned and stretched. “I haven’t gotten to crush a vessel in ages.”
Thor snorted as they headed outside. “Yeah, yeah. And I enjoyed getting everyone back to shore.”
Penny pushed them out of the hospital room, and Nova and Mort caught in the wave. “I will leave you three to discuss... things.”
Ven was left alone with Syar and Reynaldo’s beast. She reached out and took his hand. “Hey, sweetie. Yeah, I know that trusting Myele was stupid, but I was feeling ridiculously optimistic.” She swallowed. “She’s really dead?”
Syar nodded. “Oh, very.”
He was next to Reynaldo, who was reducing back to normal size.
“So, who called my cousin?”
“She refers to herself as your sister, but yeah, ‘twas me.” He lifted her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles.
“So, you got informed by the docs about the, uh, situation?”
Syar smiled. “That your injuries are nearly healed and should be invisible by tomorrow. You will be back to your normally tight abs for now.”
