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He looks uncertain but nods as he lets his smile show. “Thanks.”
I lean against August, feeling absolutely exhausted as an ache starts to settle into my muscles. This body definitely isn’t the crime-fighting type.
But at the end of the day, those I love and care about are still alive and well.
“Hey, Landon, where’s my cheese stick?” Brandon asks.
I glance back at him. “I don’t know, man.”
“Fudge. That was my last one too.”
I pull out my wallet and hand him a hundred-dollar bill. “Go crazy.”
He beams at me as he takes it. “So much CHEESE!”
CHAPTERTWENTY-FIVE
LANDON
I swing the bag in my hand as I walk into the hospital. Deus is getting sent home today, which is fantastic to hear. He had to stay in the hospital a couple of days, but by the end of the second day was threatening to turn invisible and leave before the doctor reported that “the patient was threatening to summon a demon and thinks it best if he seeks help elsewhere.”
So Deus got his wish to leave early.
As the group of us walk into the room, Deus is already sitting on the bed, eager to go.
“FINALLY,” he announces.
“No, you have to wait for them to release you. The nurse said when she was done with the paperwork you could go but not until then,” I say.
Deus seems to think this is absolutely ridiculous as he hugs his rifle to himself. Something else that’d caused more than one issue when he refused to let anyone, including me, take it. With his status, he was allowed to get away with it on the strict stipulation that he couldn’t take it into surgery with him.
The invoice we received for that day was quite the hefty one for causing him “life-long trauma,” not because his back was sliced open but because he had to leave his weapon with me.
He made Ellison and me promise we’d protect it with our very lives and then told us if he wasn’t cradling it when he woke up, he would know our friendship wasn’t real.
“I’m tired of waiting. I want to go,” Deus demands then turns invisible. The group of us crowd around him before he can slip away, and he grudgingly turns back.
“Tough shit,” August says, which makeseveryonelook over at him.
I whistle, finding his demands sexy. “How about this instead… the group of us made you something,” I say as I hand the bag over.
Deus eyes us suspiciously. “Is it a head? If it’s another head, I’m going to be… something.”
“A-Anotherhead? Excuse me? Who gifted youthe first head?” I ask.
He waves me off and looks into the bag before tossing out the paper inside and then stilling. I can see the moment he notices it, and even though all four of us said multiple times that this gift was absolutely ridiculous, we also all knew he’d love it.
“Sorry it looks like a… twig monster,” Lex says as Deus pulls out the voodoo doll we’d made him last night.
He gasps as he holds it tightly. “N-No one’s ever given me anything but a head before.”
“God, and I thought the wasps were rough,” I mutter.
“We obviously suck at arts and crafts because that thing turned into an abomination,” Ellison says.
“I love the abomination,” Deus says, happily agreeing instead of being like “No, you guys clearly tried really hard! It’s beautiful!” He smiles at us. “Thank you. I really love this. My very own abomination.”
“It was Ellison’s idea,” I say.
