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“If you never believe anything else I say, believe this. I will never be done with you, Nova.”
She lets out a breath as I release her hair, then curls up next to me, her head against my chest, her hand clutching my suit jacket.
I look at Conner, who looks shocked, and Isaac, who looks amused.
“Well, life sure won’t be boring with you around.”
“I will stab you in the face, Isaac,” Nova mutters without lifting her head, making me grin. It sets off the other two, and before I know it, the three of us are laughing while Nova ignores us.
The hospital was packed, but luckily, we have a doctor on speed dial for just this kind of occasion. Speaking of luck, Nova managed to do minimal damage to my hand. A couple of stitches, a tetanus shot, some antibiotics, and a matching bandage to Nova’s, and I’m good to go.
Thankfully, Nova didn’t hit an artery. She’s just a bleeder. She didn’t like being told to take it easy for the week, though, so that she doesn’t accidentally rip her stitches open.
Conner rode back in the limo with George and returned in the Range Rover to pick us up. I lift Nova into the back, ignoring the pain in my hand, before getting in next to her.
“Let’s get out of here.”
Nova murmurs her agreement, the painkillers the doctor gave her making her sleepy.
“You got a bottle of water up there?”
“Yeah, hold on.” Conner pops open the glove box, grabs the water, and hands it over.
I open it and hold it out for Nova. “The doctor wants you to take these too.” I hand her the pills I got the doctor to give me. If she weren’t so spaced out on pain meds, she’d question why he didn’t just give them to her himself.
“What are they?” she asks as she takes them from me.
“Just some antibiotics.”
She pops them in her mouth and swallows them down with a mouthful of water before handing the bottle back to me.
“Good girl. Now lie back and get some rest.”
She does as instructed and is out cold by the time we make it home. I carry her inside and strip her before laying her on the bedand pulling the sheet up to cover her. She doesn’t stir even once. I strip out of my bloody clothes and change into a clean shirt and suit before heading back downstairs.
“Those pills should keep her knocked out until tomorrow,” I say before looking at Conner. “I’ll get Miles to come keep an eye out so you can get some sleep.”
“You want me to go home or crash here in case I’m needed?”
“Take one of the guest rooms. Isaac, you’re with me.”
Isaac nods and follows me out. “Want me to drive?”
I toss him the keys to the Jag in response.
“So, what does she know about her father?”
“That he took a turn for the worse and had to watch the wedding from his bedroom. Yeah. I’ve got her phone, so she hasn’t had any updates.”
“You gonna tell her the rest?”
“What? That I drugged her father so he couldn’t make it to the wedding and made him watch as the bride turned out to be Gia?” I grin. “Probably. It’s too good not to share. The rest, though, I think I’ll keep to myself.” Like the fact that I gave him another cocktail of drugs when he lost his shit. They knocked him out and fucked with his breathing.
Gia and Aldo are celebrating their wedding night as per tradition, so they aren’t here tonight, leaving Alessio as the acting representative at the meeting today. His support went a long way in convincing the others that nobody wanted to go against me for the spot.
He doesn’t push for more, so I pull out my phone, tap into the camera feed, and watch Nova as she sleeps.
“Did anyone oppose you?”
