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“I can’t watch any more of this.” I sniff and look up at him. His eyes are fire and furry. “Stop, please just?—”
“After I send it to York and Marks.” He strokes a few keys and then clears his throat. “Kal will be connected, and he’ll do time as well.”
Just like that we’re back to the conversation.
“Alice might be afraid of them. They have enough pull to make me resign a volunteer position from a place I’d helped start.”
“York’s gathering the information from the center. I hear that was your idea.”
I shake my head. “It was a collaborative idea.”
He lifts my chin with his thumb. “Seeing you in action at the ER and then with Danny, I know you can take care of yourself and Nora and half the fucking town, Whit, but when this all comes to a head, it’s gonna suck, not being able to take care of you. I want you to seriously consider going to Florida with me. I’ll rent a house on the beach; your grandparents can come. Nora’s in school, yeah, but it’s preschool, and she’s no doubt smarter than all of them anyway. She won’t have to hear whatever shit kids talk when their parents say too much in front of them, and I won’t have to say fuck ball after one damn night away.”
“My job.”
“Nora asked if there were sick people in Florida. I’m guessing there are, but we could bring Danny and Chloe while they recuperate. Neither is going to be able to work.”
A gargled, “In,” comes from beside us.
Danny.
Danny’s awake.
“Shh, you have a tube to help you breathe.” I stand up and walk over to him and hit the call button.
“Ow” he says and starts to lift his arm.
“And you have a broken arm and shoulder.”
A nurse comes in and checks his vitals.
“They’re good,” I assure her.
“Mmhmm,” she says, no doubt not liking me telling her how to do her job. “Daniel, we’re going to remove this, and it’s not gonna feel all that good.”
As soon as it comes out, he asks, “Does my dick still work?”
“Why would that be the first thing that comes out of your mouth after you almost died?” I scold him.
“Because it’s the only part of my body that doesn’t hurt.” He turns his head and looks at Chloe. “How’s my little hero?”
“She’s got a few broken ribs, and she had to have surgery to fix the breaks in her arm.”
“I’m going to kill that bastard.”
“No, you’re gonna let the state of Texas do that if they see fit.”
“They aren’t gonna do shit ’cause we made it—even though it wasn’t his intention.”
“Before he came to Walton, he went to the center. He shot and killed Kris Krone and shot Alice as well.”
“What?”
Pope gives him the information. “He wasn’t going to do their drug deal until Alice gave him Chloe’s whereabouts. She wouldn’t get him the information, but Kris did, and he still killed him. Texas is gonna give him life or end his. Either way, he’s done.”
“After what he did to her, I want one fucking hour with him. Just one,” Danny says, void of emotion.
“You damn fool, he did worse to you.” Chloe opens her eyes and looks over. “He hurt you to get to me.”
