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“Get out of my way!” I bellow at anyone and everyone. “It’s an emergency!”
A few cars inch away, but most just stand stock-still.
I slam the car into Park. Whip off my jacket, revealing my ink, and stalk toward the car blocking us.
“Lyam!” Cosette’s crying now.
I turn to face her. “I’ve got this, baby. Breathe, Cosette.”
I reach the car in front of me.
“Listen, buddy,” the driver says as he turns to face me, cracking his window a fraction. He’s bald and about fifty, and looks like he wants to punch me. I fucking dare him. “We all wanna fucking move. If you think you’re special, fucking think again.”
“Roll down your window.”
He stares at me and snorts. “I don’t think so.”
I lean in and brace my forearms on the doorframe at the base of the window, the tat of my snake clearly visible. His eyes widen when they come to rest on it. I have a reputation in these parts and I’m not afraid to use it.
“Roll down your window,” I repeat in a voice just above a whisper as I take out my favorite gun, “or I’ll shoot it open. It gets messy, then, doesn’t it? I might accidentally hityou,or your buddy, then you’ve got a fucking broken window.”
Staring at the snake, he pushes a button. The window slides down.
As soon as it’s down I reach in and grab him by the neck. His eyes nearly bug out of his head. “This is an emergency. I’ve gotta move. Get out of my fucking waynow.”
His friend slams the dashboard. “Do it. Jesus, do it.”
I release him and toss a few bills on his seat. “Here’s a tip.”
I go back to Cosette and notice blood on the seat of the car. She openly weeps and turns away when I get back in the driver’s seat. I reach for her knee. “Breathe, baby,” I say again, as the car in front of us peels away. I hit the dash with my left hand and call the doctor. I tell her what’s happening.
“Meet me at the hospital, Mr. Gerard.”
We drive through the city streets as fast as I can while keeping her safe and glide into the hospital entrance within two minutes. Seconds later, I’m running in with her. She’s sobbing quietly against my shirt. I bark out orders to the hospital staff, trying to think of anything at all that might make this better.
Goddammit. I feel helpless and useless.
There are some things that even physical intimidation, millions of dollars, and brute force can’t control.
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FOURTEEN
Cosette
“We’re going to the hospital,”Lyam says. “Hang in there, baby.”
I hold onto my belly as if somehow, I can keep this baby here with me. Even though I’m not that far along, I’ve already imagined having a sweet baby of my own… of our own. I’ve already imagined how it would feel seeing Lyam hold our baby, and how I would be the one to hold and rock and soothe our little one.
Lyam drives fast on a good day. Right now, it feels as if the car has sprouted wings and begun to fly. But I don’t care. I want to get there as fast as he does. He’d teleport us if he could but since he can’t, he’s doing the best he can to get me there as fast as humanly possible. God help any officer who tries to stop him right now.
When I see traffic and brake lights ahead of us at the final turn to get to the hospital, I stifle a sob. I need to get there. The urgency of the moment tells me I need to get therenow.
“They have to move,” I cry. “How do we get them to move?”
“I’ve got this.” His hand rests on my thigh. “Trust me.”
I let out a breath I didn’t know I was holding.
