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I pulled back. “If you would have seen her face when we pulled up. Hell, I probably could have gotten her to agree to marry me in that moment, because she was so fucking happy we were there.”
“Yeah. She loves that fucking place. Dad made some calls, and we’re trying to figure out how the fucking ice cracked in these temperatures. We’ve been skating on that ice for years.”
I shrugged just as Bradford called me to come back in.
I hurried inside, hoping something had happened, but it was just more updates about her heart rate being slow now.
I took back residence in my chair, reached for her hand, and promised her I would be there when she woke up.
But the sunlight that filled the room during the day would darken in the evening. Another night without my girl.
Another night where we couldn’t sit beneath the stars.
Brinkley and Finn had taken shifts coming in with me during the late hours.
Cage had come for several hours and sat with me.
Lila and Hugh were there the following morning, taking turns in the chair on the other side of her bed.
The days and the nights blurred.
Alana had urged me to go home and sleep and take a shower. But I wasn’t leaving until I knew she was okay.
Period. End of story.
The room had filled with flowers from everyone in town.
The largest arrangement that arrived was from my father, who’d called me multiple times a day to check on her.
Who the fuck would have guessed that Georgia Reynolds would be the reason I would take calls from my father?
But he was genuinely concerned about her because she’d been nothing but kind to him.
Wyle called constantly, as did my grandparents.
Everyone loved her.
I’d put them in touch with Alana, who was much better at updating people, because I didn’t want to talk to anyone but the one person I couldn’t talk to.
“I’m going to go down to the cafeteria and get you a sandwich. You haven’t eaten anything today,” Alana said when the room darkened and we were getting ready for our third night of sleeping in a chair. She’d left during the day and brought food for everyone at the hospital, but I had no appetite.
I nodded, not because I wanted food, but because I could use a minute alone. I didn’t want to break down in front of Georgia’s mother. Hell, she’d given birth to my girl, and I knew she was hurting. But holding it in was killing me.
I wrapped both hands around my girl’s dainty hand, and I let the tears fall.
“Baby, I need you to wake up. I never thought I would love anyone the way that I love you. And now that you’ve awakened that, I don’t know what to do with it.” I sniffed and tried to stop the tears from falling. “I can’t be in a world that you aren’t in. So please, please, Tink. Don’t leave me.”
The lump lodged in my throat made it difficult to breathe. I fell forward, my head resting on her hip. Her hand wrapped in mine.
And that was when I felt it.
Her finger moved along the back of my hand. Soothing and healing and bringing me back to life.
My head sprung up to look at her. Her eyes were blinking. Her hand squeezing mine back.
I glanced at the outdated clock hanging on the wall.
Forty-eight hours and twenty-nine minutes of pure hell.
