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Scarlett’s standing behind Renie and already on it. Damn, if we haven’t been here before.
“Is he okay?” Renie rushes to the steps and moves to take him from my arms.
“Careful,” I warn her. “Lay the towel down. We need to keep him still in case he broke something.”
I heard the smack to his skull, and it makes me sick. The blood staining his blond hair is scary, too.
“Oh my, God, Nicolas.” Renie carefully starts dabbing at the contusion with the edge of the towel.
“He’ll be okay.” I hope I’m right.
The medic arrives quickly. It’s minutes, and he’s loaded onto the gurney and into the ambulance. All the while, I can’t shake the memory of seeing Redix like that. Of watching his almost lifeless body rushed away in an ambulance. It’s times like these when I want him back so much. Nothing feels right without him.
Renie rides with him. Scarlett and I follow in her car, and I try calling Redix. I’m wet and shivering as my call rolls to voicemail. I hate texting this, but he leaves me no choice.
Meet me at the hospital
It’s Nicolas. He’ll be okay but get there ASAP
By the time we arrive and park, they have Nicolas rushed in for scans while Renie stays by his side if he wakes up. It’s another hour before he’s done. Another hour later, they find him a room to keep him for observation overnight.
They think he’ll be fine, and he seems it. Nicolas wakes up and starts talking like nothing happened. He thinks getting his head shaved for stitches is fascinating. He asks for a mirror to see it.
Scarlett and I chuckle from our chairs in the hospital room while his mom looks so relieved by his bedside.
Minutes later, a commotion approaches from the hallway. The smell of him arrives, along with the sound of high heels clicking in after him.
“Hey.” Redix rushes into the room with his eyes on Nicolas. His shitty girlfriend clicks in behind him. “Hey, buddy. You okay?” Redix gently brushes over Nicolas’s shorn head.
“I got stitches! See!” Nicolas turns his head so we can all see them. It’s a hard sight on Redix, but he forces his smile.
“I see,” he says. “You okay?” He reaches for Renie next.
“Yeah,” she squeezes him back. “Just scared the mess out of me, but we’re fine. They want to keep him overnight just in case.”
Redix finally turns his head and clocks me and Scarlett sitting in the corner.
Did he just wince?
“Cade saved him,” Renie announces, and I swear she does it to spite his girlfriend.
“It’s no biggie,” I mutter because if I open my mouth too much, his girlfriend is in the perfect place and will look really good with all the stitches I wanna give her.
“Thanks,” he says to me, and like he just woke up, he remembers who he came in with. And who he spent last night with, it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out.
“Um…” Redix makes the introductions and saves me for last. Because how do you introduce me?
“This is the first woman I loved, kissed, lost my virginity to, proposed to, sacrificed myself for, left for ten years, came back and fought to get her back, and almost proposed to again, but then kicked her out and now I told her I want her back and I’m attracted to her sorta ex-boyfriend.”
Nope. That takes too long.
“Karen, this is Cade,” is all he says.
“Hi,” she says, and that guilty smile needs to be smacked off her face. “Nice to meet you.”
“You sure about that?” I ask her.
Fuck. That just slipped out, I swear.
