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God, I missed her.
I missed my sweet, shy girl.
“You look terrified.”
I rolled my head to the side and saw Jax standing there with a knowing smile on his face.
“It’s because I am,” I told him. My voice was still a bit scratchy. “What if she doesn’t want to come here?”
“She’s been standing vigil here all day, every day, since you were brought in,” Jax reminded me. “You’re making yourself crazy for no reason. She’ll be here.”
There was that.
Royce had indicated to me not long after I’d woken up that Hanna had been here, that she’d arrived first thing every morning and that she didn’t leave until the hospital staff made her.
I wanted to take that to mean good things, but until I saw her and heard the words from her mouth, I refused to assume that everything was going to be alright.
Because the truth was that I knew Hanna. She was a selfless woman, and I couldn’t be certain that she was coming here because of how she felt for me.
“You don’t know, Jax,” I advised. “We were not in a good place after they hauled her down to the station for questioning.”
“But you said it yourself,” he began. “That whole situation would be traumatizing to anyone. In her case, she had that and the fact that she’d just learned another person she knew had been murdered. Even if you don’t know her relationship with those people, it doesn’t change what that might do to her. It’s understandable that she might have been feeling too much and overreacted that day.”
I had said that.
After Hanna ended things and I went to the station to talk to Brock, I’d gone back to the office. Naturally, Jax was waiting there, eager for whatever information I’d learned from Hanna. Sadly, I didn’t have the information he had been hoping I’d provide. After explaining that Hanna had ended things between us, because she’d believed I had been investigating her from the start, I tried to ease a bit of what I was feeling by telling Jax that she was likely just overreacting because of all that was happening.
What I hadn’t done was tell him precisely what she’d said to me right before I walked out of her place. I couldn’t bring myself to repeat those words, and I was well aware of the fact that she might still feel that way.
Hanna wasn’t so cruel that she’d want to see harm come my way, but it was entirely possible she still wanted nothing to do with me.
I regret ever opening my heart up to you.
I felt like someone had forgotten to push the shuffle button, because of all the things Hanna had said to me since we started things between us, those were the only ones replaying over and over in my mind now.
Nobody but me knew about them.
And it was for that reason that Jax believed Hanna’s presence here was a good sign.
Knowing I wouldn’t be able to repeat the words she’d said to me to anyone, I had no choice but to agree. “Yeah, you’re right. Maybe this head injury had made me forget a thing or two.”
Jax let out a laugh, but before he could reply with some witty comeback, we heard noise coming from near the door.
I was praying it was her.
My eyes flew in that direction, and seconds later, I saw Kane enter, pushing a wheelchair. That wheelchair was carrying Hanna, who was dressed in a hospital gown.
In the instant our eyes locked, something crackled between us. A spark, maybe? My body was feeling more and more alive at the sight of her, and it felt as though the blood was rushing faster in my veins.
Kane pushed Hanna’s wheelchair farther into the room, until he brought her to a stop on the left side of my bed.
We hadn’t managed to tear our gazes from one another, and the silence in the room had stretched on for a long time.
“We’re going to step outside,” Jax declared. “Let you two… talk for a while.”
Neither Hanna nor I responded to him. We didn’t even look in his direction. The two of us kept our gazes focused on one another until long after we heard the door close.
Unable to stand it any longer, I decided to speak first. My voice was just a touch over a whisper when I said, “Hey.”
