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“I sent her home early because she wasn’t feeling good.” Lilah’s small voice has my heart constricting in my chest.
Lilah stops short, and I almost run into her back as she spins around on me. “My office!”
I follow her to her office where she finds her phone lying on top of a stack of paperwork.
I wait for her as she runs to the front to let her employees know she has to leave.
On the way out to my bike, she turns to me. “Why didn’t anyone call the bakery phone?”
“Honestly, babe, I don’t think anyone thought of that.”
“We need a better system for emergencies,” Lilah says, forlorn.
I wait for her to settle on the bike and secure her helmet before taking off towards the hospital.
Once we’re there, it’s like, once again, we don’t exist. Lilah leaves me to flank her dad’s side. He holds her in his embrace while she softly cries.
I want to fucking hold her.
I roll my eyes when I catch Ghost’s gaze as he watches me stew over my anger at being unable to comfort my wife.
This idea of not telling anyone fucking blows.
The whole club remains at the hospital until well after midnight, when Horse finally pulls out of surgery. The docs tell us he’s nowhere near being out of the woods.
There isn’t much for us to be doing in the waiting room. The only one allowed back to see him is Maggie.
After listening to Dad explain what is going on, I drop down in front of a sleepy Lilah. “Ready to go home?”
She nods with a yawn, turning to give her dad a kiss on his cheek. “Love you, Daddy.”
“Love you too, baby girl.”
Once out of the waiting room, Lilah allows me to wrap my arm around her shoulder, pulling her body into mine. I gather her small body in my arms and kiss the top of her head, breathing in her scent.
This is how it fucking should be. All the time. Not just when we turn corners and are free from others seeing us.
“You okay, Princess?”
“Hmm?” she asks, looking up at me sleepily.
My lip twitches at the gorgeous creature that has captured all of my attention. Even half asleep, dead on her feet, Lilah is breathtaking. “I asked if you were alright?”
Lilah’s shoulder shrugs under my arm, and she lets out a sigh. “As long as Horse is okay, I will be.”
Isn’t that the fucking truth.
* * *
Pulling my bike into Lilah’s driveway, I hold the bike steady with my booted feet on the ground. As Lilah’s boots hit the pavement, she turns to me and presses a chaste kiss against my lips before pulling away and smiling down at me.
“Want to come up?”
I nod without a word. Lilah opens the garage, and I put my bike into park right next to one of Reaper’s extras.
We make our way upstairs into her small apartment. I promise myself that, one day, I’m going to buy her the home of her dreams. Whatever it takes, I’ll make it happen. But I don’t dare say shit about it because it would just lead into her rant about whether we’ll even work out or not.
I follow Lilah into the bathroom and invite myself to join her in the shower as we both shed our clothes before stepping under the steamy water.
