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“It’s up to your waist now. You can feel it against your skin. Caressing. Massaging.”
“Feel you.” He let out a breath.
I combed my fingers through his hair. “I’m here. Just breathe.” He wasn’t squirming as much. “Good. Now how far up is the water?”
“Chest,” he whispered.
The door opened behind me. It was Drey, followed by a nurse holding a needle. Drey pointed the nurse to Damon as if urging her to hurry up.
“Warm, right? You feel the waves moving you? Swaying? I do. And as you’d say, it fucking rocks.”
He laughed, then squeezed his eyes closed.
“Sorry. Breathe. You got this.”
The nurse worked their way around the bed and prepped the needle to insert into the IV they’d started at the emergency room.
“A wave’s coming. It’s small, but it splashes us. The water, it’s up to our shoulders. The sun is baking our faces. I hear birds. Seagulls. You hear them?”
“Mmm. Love your voice.”
Drey nodded.
“Doing great, Damon,” I said. “How’s the pain?”
“Better. Still chiseling, but better. You’re better than morphine any day, LizBelle.”
“Well, maybe me and the Tylenol they gave you.”
“Mmm.” His head tilted to the side. “We’re so going to the beach someday. For real.”
I kissed his forehead. “Deal.”
Looked like I was spending another night in the hospital with him.
Chapter Thirty-Four
Damon
“So,mybrainisbroken,” I said, lying on my back, once again in a damn hospital bed.
“That crowbar did a number on you,” Doc said.
I rubbed my temple where the raised scars were, then touched the others below my left eye. They felt rubbery and thick. Crowbars tended to leave their mark.
“So. What’s a cluster headache, then?” I asked, ready to get the great news flowing so I could get the hell out of here. Wasn’t it enough that I was blind? Had to heap on headaches that brought me to my knees?
Talk about a raw deal.
“Typically they hit around the same time of day, every day for a short while.”
“Great.”
“But you haven’t been consistently getting them since you came out of your coma, and now you’ve passed the time last night that you got the headache. It’s an interesting case.”
“And the thunder-lightning in my head?”
“Associated with clusters.”
