AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Hack let out a low growl.
“He’ll be better once he sees his girl,” Duke said calmly.
The guy nodded and turning, opened the door. They all rushed in to find Greer lying on an examination table. One of his colleagues was checking her eyes. His breath rushed out of his lungs as he took her in. Her right eye was swollen shut, her face starting to bruise.
Her hair was a mess and her clothes dirty and ripped.
“What the fuck happened?” Sav snapped.
Hack turned to snarl at him for talking to Greer like that. But then he saw his gaze was off to the side.
Where Cash leaned against the wall, his face hard and closed off. The guy that had been standing out of the room joined him. A friend of his?
What was going on?
“Hack?”
He turned his gaze back to Greer. Shit. None of that mattered right now. All that mattered was her.
“Baby girl. Fuck. What happened? How is she, Oliver?”
“She’s being very brave,” Oliver said, patting her shoulder lightly. “Slight concussion. We’re going to leave this ice pack on that eye to keep down the swelling.” He picked up an ice pack and put it back over her eye as she flinched. Hack’s anger grew. “And we need to -ray her ribs. There’s bruising along her side and one or two might be cracked.” Oliver glanced up at him, then around the room. “These guys don’t want to involve the cops, even though she was obviously beaten up.”
The silence in the room was damning.
“How about I leave you all for a moment,” Oliver said. “I’ll come back to let you know when the x-ray machine is free.”
“Thanks, man. I owe you.” As Oliver moved away, Hack rushed forward, his hands hovering over her. “Oh, baby. Are you in a lot of pain? Did they give you some painkillers?”
“They did. They’ve taken really good care of me. Daddy, I’m so sorry.”
Tears started dripping down her face. He sat facing her, brushing them away gently. “Hey, what’s this? What do you have to be sorry for?”
“I was . . . I shouldn’t have gone there. Such a stupid thing to do. I’m so dumb. I . . . I . . .”
Shit.
“Hey. Calm down,” he told her firmly. “This isn’t your fault. Did you ask someone to hurt you?”
“No,” she cried.
“No. So you will not take all of this on yourself. Understand me?”
“But I was naughty,” she whispered.
“Then we’ll deal with that later,” he whispered back, aware of the others talking in the background. “But right now, what we need to concentrate on is looking after you.”
“Why the hell don’t you want to involve the cops?” Sav demanded. “What are you mixed up in, Cash?”
“Nothing you want or need to know about,” Cash replied coolly.
“Damn it, Cash! Don’t give me that bullshit! I’m your brother.”
“So?”
The two of them were nose to nose as they glared at each other.
“Guys,” Greer said quietly. “Stop. Please.”
