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They didn’t look like they were ready to stop fighting.
Yeesh.
Men.
“I made chili,” I blurted out.
Everyone looked at me, and after a second, Eddie’s arm around me relaxed.
“If everyone at Eddie’s hasn’t hoovered through it, there should be some left,” I carried on.
I was trying to defuse the situation.
It wasn’t working.
“Gotta go,” Darius muttered, looking ready to fade back in the shadows.
I turned to him. “There’s plenty.”
I saw a white flash of teeth then he was gone.
See, I was right. Darius was a good guy.
I gave Hank a look, communicating without words that life definitely held shades of gray.
Hank just winked at me.
Whatever.
I turned and Eddie’s arm stayed around me, but slid around my back.
I looked up at him. “Eddie, stop fighting with Lee. Let’s go to the hospital and check on Dad and then let’s go home.”
I tried to use a sweet, coaxing voice, but Eddie didn’t feel in the mood to be sweet-talked and coaxed.
“You wouldn’t have allowed Indy to be put in that position,” Eddie said to Lee, pushing the point.
“You’re right. I wouldn’t,” Lee replied. “Indy would have put herself in it. And two days ago, when we knew Vince had aligned himself with Slick and we wanted to offer this choice to Jet, you wouldn’t allow it, but I’m guessin’ she would’ve taken it.”
I twisted around to look at Lee, my eyes nearly popping out of my head.
What he said surprised me. What surprised me more was that he was right, I would have taken it.
“I would have preferred you to know,” Lee told me.
Wow. That was huge. It was even kind of earth-shattering, not only that I would have taken it, but that he thought I would.
“Thank you,” I said and meant it.
At that, Eddie was done. He moved, grabbing my hand and taking me with him.
Guess I was done too.
“Don’t forget the chili!” I called back to Lee, Hank and Mace.
They’d formed a huddle and turned their heads to look at me. All of them gave me the chin lift and grinned.
Eddie walked me away, far away, to where he’d parked the truck. He helped me in the passenger side and then he got in the driver’s side.
