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She frowned, blinking her eyes. “Thirsty.”
I lifted the cup on her bedside table and brought the straw to her lips. She drank a few tiny sips, then rested her head against the pillow.
“You know I don’t like to be called that.”
“I know. It slipped out.” Fuck. I couldn’t stop smiling.
“What’s the matter with you? You’re grinning like a fool.”
“I’m just happy to see you, sweetling. Missed those pretty gray eyes.”
“Hawk.”
“Renner,” I corrected. “Well, Renner James, to be exact.”
“Your real name?”
“Yep. I’d like to hear you say it the next time you’re coming on my tongue.”
A flush crept into her cheeks.
“You’ve been out for several days. Kinda worried me,” I admitted.
She moved her hand to her stomach, remembering the gunshot wound. “Am I okay?”
“Yes.”
“Can I still have babies?” Her eyes filled with tears, and my heart nearly shattered.
“I think so. I didn’t ask because I didn’t want to overstep.”
“I want to know. Now.”
Callie buzzed for the nurse’s station. “Send in a doctor, please. I need to talk to someone about my chart.”
The wait nearly killed me, but twenty minutes later, an older man in a white coat entered, greeting us.
“How can I help you, Callie?”
“I was shot in the stomach. Can I still have children?”
The doctor blinked. “Well, yes.”
“You’re sure?”
“Absolutely.”
“But how do you know it didn’t damage any of my reproductive organs?”
The doc smiled. “Good question. Well, we did some X-rays. There’s no internal bleeding. No trauma to any internal organs. You were lucky.”
Callie nodded, relieved.
“But you do have something in your file you should know about.”
Oh, shit.
“What is it?”
