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“He’s conscious. Asking for you.” Jeremy looked at everyone. “Just Talon guys, sorry.”
“What about the scan?” Talon followed him through the double doors.
“Dr. Shaughnessy is looking at it now. He said I could get you and he’ll be in to talk to you both in a minute.” Talon more or less knew where Finn would be, but he still obediently followed Jeremy. “He’s going to have a black eye. Keep your conversation simple. He’s woozy, and not fully aware yet.”
Jeremy pulled the curtain back and nodded to the other nurse who was recording something on an iPad, but Talon barely registered her presence. He was too busy looking at the man who had captured his heart and held it together for the last two years. It would break in a million tiny pieces if he didn’t have Finn. Talon sank down in the empty chair he assumed was for him and took Finn’s small hand. Slender fingers that meant Talon had bought him a special gun with a compact grip. He gazed at Finn’s pale face and noted the redness forming on his cheek bone.
“Hey.”
Talon focused on the gorgeous green eyes blinking lazily at him. “Hey yourself,” he whispered.
“What happened?” Finn mumbled but his eyes were sliding shut as if the effort to keep them open was too great.
“You caught the bad guys,” Talon replied and carefully brought Finn’s hand up to his lips and kissed his knuckles.
Finn smiled without opening his eyes. “Yeah? That’s ‘cause I’m”—he stopped—“a cop,” he finished lamely. Talon’s heart threatened to claw up his throat. He hadn’t saidagent. Like he’d forgotten what he was.
Talon opened his mouth to tell him to rest and everything was going to be okay when the curtain opened, and another doctor, presumably Dr. Shaughnessy stepped through. “Good news. No sign of any damage except for the concussion. He’ll be moved to a single room shortly. I want him to stay overnight as a precaution.”
“No,” Finn protested, opening his eyes and glancing at Talon. “We have to go home. It’s Valentine’s Day.” His breath caught and his eyes filled. “We have to go home,” he repeated and clasped Talon’s hand tighter.
Talon smoothed the hair away from Finn’s eyes and took a breath. “I don’t need to be at home to tell you how much I love you. How my life finally started the day we met, and how you keep my heart beating every damn day.”
Finn smiled. It was lopsided, and he could tell Finn was valiantly trying to stay awake, so Talon stood and leaned over, brushing the gentlest of kisses on his head. “Go to sleep. I’m not going anywhere.”
Finn watched Talon for quite some time before he stirred. It was ass o’clock in the morning, before even the damn birds had decided to wake up. He was okay though. Finn’s head had hurt like hell, but he’d only had the regular painkillers and it had settled to a throb he could cope with. The team had all been in individually to check that he was okay, and he loved them to death for staying. He’d also been very interested to meet Richard, Talon’s brother, and he had assured him he was glad he was staying with them.
He’d also noticed Sawyer glance at Richard surreptitiously when the man wasn’t looking, and wasn’tthatinteresting.
Finn absently wondered what his hospital bill would be this time, and acknowledged it was a good thing he wasn’t paying. Maybe the hospital maintained some sort of reward point system, because really he was keeping the people here employed. Hell, Tampa General should be paying him by now. He chuckled silently, not wanting to wake Talon up.
He still had his ring box. Jeremy had pressed it into his hands sometime around two in the morning when he had gone off shift and Talon had been asleep. Fuck, but the man was so beautiful, with his gorgeous blue eyes that softened when he looked at him, and the blond hair that was really too long but that Talon loved Finn to take hold of and hang on to while they made love.
Finn’s breath must have hitched a little and because Talon was so attuned to him his eyes shot open. “Finn?”
Finn took his hand. “This was not how I was planning to spend Valentine’s Day.”
Talon smiled. “You make every day of my life a Valentine’s Day.”
“Are you sure it wasn’t you that hit your head?” Finn asked semi-seriously, and Talon shook his.
“No, and I have something I want to ask you.”
“Me first,” Finn blurted out, because he had an awful feeling Talon was going to suggest he left the team.
Because he seemed to get hurt a lot.
Totallynothis fault.
“Okay,” Talon said hesitantly.
The nurse appeared to take Finn’s vitals and do head injury checks, so they were both silent while that was done.
Finn took a deep breath once they were finally alone. “I love you.” It seemed to be the most important thing. Talon’s eyes softened.
“I love you too.”
“I know you do.” Finn hesitated. Why was this so hard?
