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Instead, I was in a hospital with Captain Morgan standing next to me.
“Wipe that bitch look off your face, kid,” Captain Morgan drawled. “If you’re not careful, it’ll
freeze that way.”
I rolled my eyes at that tired excuse of a joke.
“So, what happened to have all those kids rushing the compound?” I rumbled my question.
A nurse led us back to a room that was off to the side of all the other rooms, then left with a
promise that she would be sending a doctor in a little later to look at my wounds.
“Yao arrested some punk kid at the high school,” Captain Morgan said. “All the kids followed his
ass from class.”
I cringed.
“And the adults?” I asked.
He pulled out a glove from the dispenser above the sink and blew it up like a child, tying it off
and tossing it at me before answering.
“Just kids who want to start shit,” he said. “Some of them were from school and came along with
him when he was arrested. The rest were from the local college. Lawyers… or wannabes, anyway.”
I looked at the balloon that was in my hands now, then tossed it back.
Captain Morgan and I did that, bopping it back and forth to each other, before someone finally
came in.
And that someone made my heart fucking sing.
“Frankie,” I said, sounding like a total douche.
Frankie’s head snapped up and her mouth dropped open.
“Malachi!” she cried out. “You were the one hurt?”
I shrugged. “I was.”
She growled under her breath, and I decided it was the cutest thing I’d ever seen—at least from
what I could remember.
“What happened?” she asked.
I went on to explain, in detail, exactly what happened.
First, I didn’t see the point in lying. At least not about this. And secondly, she’d likely see the entire fucking thing on the internet.
Shit like that was popular on the internet nowadays.
I already had to see my ugly mug on the face of newspapers, online news outlets, and at the damn
