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He pulled the door shut behind him, leaving just Georgia and my pizza.
“Lawson really tried to fight Hampton about leaving?” I asked.
She shook her head. “I have no clue. But I know he sat in this chair and didn’t move the entire time you were…asleep.”
“Huh,” I murmured, grabbing another slice of pizza and taking a bite. I chewed slowly, no longer tasting the food.
20
Lawson
My phone chimed with an incoming message and I rolled my neck before picking it up.
Hampton: Yo, asshole. Open the door.
I groaned and dropped the phone back to the wooden desk before pushing my stiff limbs out of the chair I’d been sitting in for the last few hours. My feet tingled, the blood rushing back into them as I made my way down the hallway of my empty house.
Piper had been in the hospital for four days and aside from the occasional noises Seven made, it had been quiet.
And I fucking hated it.
I pulled the door open to see Hampton dressed in green hospital scrubs standing on the other side.
“I’ve been ringing the doorbell for an hour,” he rumbled, elbowing his way inside.
I rolled my eyes at him and stepped aside. “You’re full of shit.”
He grinned as he threw himself onto the couch. “Yeah, I am.”
After sitting at my desk all day, I opted to lean against the wall. “What’s up, Hampton? Piper okay?”
He nodded as he stuffed one of Piper’s th
row pillows under his head. “Yeah, she’s doing good. That’s actually why I’m here. She’s being discharged tomorrow and I came to get some of her stuff.”
“She need some clothes to wear home?” My brow furrowed. “She could have called me. I would have brought something.”
“Yeah. And some stuff to make her comfortable while she’s finishing her recovery.”
His phone chimed and he pulled it out of his pocket, reading whatever the message said and chuckling under his breath.
I waited a few moments, but when it became clear he wasn’t going to elaborate anymore, I huffed. “Why do you need to get stuff for her recovery?”
Hampton tore his attention from whatever was so funny on his phone screen and looked at me. “I’m taking her home with me.”
Instantly, I saw red. “The hell you are,” I snapped.
The moment the words left his lips, it hit me.
This was Piper’s home.
I looked around at all of the décor she’d added against my will and realized that before she’d moved in with me, it was just a house. She’d turned it into a home. Her home. And I’d be damned if she was going to be doing any more recovering anywhere but inside this house.
Hampton sat up, his large frame taking up most of my couch, and rested his elbows on his knees. “What the hell?”
I shook my head. “She’s going home when she gets released. Her home. Here. With me.”
A sly smile crept over his face. He made a show of looking around the room. “This is home, huh?”
