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“Come on.” I slipped my arm around her waist and pulled her toward my car.
“I’m so embarrassed,” she murmured, half out of it, as she leaned her head on my shoulder.
It was as if she was drunk. Or high. Or somewhere in between. Is this what a gluten overdose did to a celiac? It seemed a little extreme.
With a little manhandling, I managed to get Harper into the back of my car. Scottie insisted on sliding in beside her.
It didn’t seem wholly appropriate, letting my kid brother be her leaning post. But neither did leaving her alone to handle things.
And if I was being entirely honest with myself, I didn’t like the idea of anyone else taking care of her.
Fuck.
These possessive thoughts infiltrating my mind were fucking annoying and unwarranted.
She wasn’t mine.
She was never going to be mine.
“I’m so sorry,” she murmured, her heavy-lidded gaze catching mine in the rearview mirror.
“You can come home with us,” Scottie declared. “Right, Mase?”
“I… yeah. You can come sleep it off at ours. I’ll drive you back to get your car later.”
“Mm-hmm,” she murmured, leaning her head against the window.
“Is she gonna be okay, Mase?” Scottie worried his lip between his teeth.
“Yeah, bud. She’ll be okay.”
At least, I hoped she would.
I was out of my depth.
Lifting my ass off the seat, I dug my cell out of my pocket and pulled up Google.
How to treat being glutened.
Hundreds of hits came straight up, and I opened the first link.
“What are you doing?” Scottie asked, not taking his eyes off Harper’s sleeping form.
“We need to make a stop on the way home, okay?”
“Will it make Harper better?”
“I hope so, bud.”
Because the sooner she got better, the sooner I could send her on her way.
* * *
Harper was still out cold by the time we pulled up outside my house.
“Take everything inside,” I said to Scottie. “And I’ll get Harper.”
My brother grabbed the grocery bag and climbed out of the car, traipsing up to the house. But he hesitated, watching as I got out and went around to the back door, trying to figure out the best way to get Harper out.
