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“I’ll run a bath,” Mav offers, and when I follow the rasp of his voice, I find him pushing from the couch.
“I’m not leaving her,” I argue. “I’m fine.”
“Little dove, don’t lie to us,” JD warns.
My lips part to argue, but I quickly find that I don’t have any words.
“You need to wash tonight off you,” Reid explains.
“We all do,” Mav agrees.
“What do you say, Dove?”
“I-I?—”
“Someone will be with her the whole time. But if you’re going to look after her, then you’re going to need to let us look after you,” JD says, his eyes boring into mine.
Sucking in a deep breath, all I can smell is the scent from the club, and instantly, it conjures up images of what I watched through that curtain.
“Okay,” I agree quietly.
“I’ll stay,” Reid says, lowering himself into the chair closest to the bed. “Go look after our girl.”
His words make my heart flutter. It’s almost enough to demand he come too. But one look at Kristie and I know he’s doing the right thing.
“Come on, Dove.”
JD slides his hand into mine and gently pulls me toward the bathroom as Mav steps up behind me, grasping my hips firmly.
“We’ve got you, Doll. Let us take some of the weight, yeah?” he whispers in my ear, making a shudder rip down my spine. “We’re here for whatever you need. Lean on us.”
As soon as we walk into the bathroom, Mav gently closes the door behind us, cutting the three of us off to the rest of the world.
I look back over my shoulder, hating being so far away from Kristie.
If she wakes up, she won’t?—
“Reid can handle this, Dove. All of us can handle this. You’re not alone anymore.”
“We do this together.”
Over my shoulder, JD and Mav’s eyes meet.
“As a family,” Mav continues.
All the air rushes from JD’s lungs. “Shit, man. I’ve no idea what to do with one of them.”
The crack in JD’s armor brings me back to the present.
“You do exactly what you’ve been doing all this time,” I assure him.
“Fuck, little dove. I don’t deserve you.”
Before I have a chance to respond, he dips low and steals my lips in the sweetest of kisses.
I lose myself in it. In him. Letting him sweep me away from reality.
Mav’s fingers brush my outer thighs as he grasps the hem of my dress before dragging it up my body.
