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“What… what happened?” I was in a hospital room, hooked up to monitors and an IV.
“What do you remember?”
I closed my eyes, thought back. “Oh. There was an accident.”
“Yes.”
I turned my head, looked to Theo, whose eyes seemed haunted. I’d never seen him look this way before. “I hit someone.”
He shook his head. “Someone hit you. Took a curve too wide.”
“Are they okay?”
He offered a small smile. “Yes. He’s got a broken collar bone, but he’s on good pain meds and is happily letting his wife take care of him.”
“And Cheryl?” We’d been arguing. I’d been so angry I’d turned around to take her home. To literally get rid of her.
He clenched his jaw and gave my hand a gentle squeeze. “Not a scratch on her.”
Of course not. “She’d been drinking.”
Theo nodded. “Yes. Intoxicated people have slow reaction times. They don’t tense up before an accident. Helps them from getting hurt.”
“Is she–”
“Hunter, you remember him?” Theo arched a brow and gave me a soft smile. Yeah, a smile. “He took her home.”
So she wasn’t here at the hospital waiting for me to wake up. I didn’t ask if she worried about me. I didn’t want to know. I made it clear she was out of my life now and I meant it. The fact that she’d left…
“What are you doing here?” I asked. It didn’t make any sense why he might be by my bedside holding my hand.
“I was with Mac when the call came in. I was there when they pulled you out of the car.”
I frowned. “Was I operated on?” I didn’t feel hurt other than a headache.
“No. I checked you over in the back of the ambulance, then handed you off to the ER team. Do you have a headache?” he wondered.
It pulsed. Throbbed. Ached. Like I’d gone through a blender. “Yeah.”
“You hit the airbag pretty hard, then something else when the car flipped.”
“The car flipped?” I had no idea.
Theo looked grim. Bleak even.
“Now that you’re awake, you’ll be checked for a concussion, but it’s pretty much a given,” he explained.
“Thank you,” I said.
“You’re awake!” Bridget said, coming into the room.
“Shh,” I said.
Mav followed behind her but remained quiet.
“You scared the shit out of me,” Bridge whispered, leaning in to give me a gentle hug. She took in Theo holding my hand but said nothing about it.
I didn’t know what it meant and I was too out of it to process.
