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“I almost died, and you’re still bossy.” She cracks a joke, but whatever she sees in my eyes, has her caressing my cheek. “I knew you’d find me.”
I hold her hands in mine and she tries to move, but I place my hand against her chest.
“You need to recover.”
She closes her eyes and Chiara waves at her.
“Hi.”
“Are you okay?”
Only my wife. She’s too good for this fucking rotten world.
“You lie in a hospital bed and ask me that?”
“What happened?”
“They wanted you, and I escaped when they weren’t looking.”
Chiara approaches and asks meekly, “What did they do?”
My blood rushes the opposite way through my veins as I grip the bed.
“You can see what they did to me.”
“I’m so sorry.”
“It wasn’t your fault.”
I stifle a grunt and she turns to me and says, “Where is Hayden? Is he okay?”
“Your brother is fine.”
“Our brother. And Cameron?”
“Everyone is fine.”
“My father—is he really dead?”
“Yes.”
I don’t even fucking care that I wasn’t the one to kill him.
A few tears roll down her face and she says, “He tried to save me. If he wasn’t there...” A shudder rocks her and her head drops on the pillow.
“Sleep, sweetheart.”
“Hop up.”
“I don’t want to hurt you.”
She drags herself to the side, ignoring her pain to accommodate me.What did I ever do to deserve this woman?
Aurora places her head on my shoulder and says, “I am still mad at you.”
“I gave you plenty of reasons to be mad at me.”
“But I also love you, and—”
