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“Yeah. It was a woman on her phone. She was trying to text someone and not paying attention. She was crying and upset that she caused the accident.” It was truly an accident, but the person broke the law. Texting and driving. Running a red light. She was even going forty-two in a thirty.
He’d been standing by the local police at the time he called Zane. The guy heard him, not many were named Zane, and he was asked if it was Zane Wolfe. He’d said yes. The cop said, “Yeah, this woman is getting multiple tickets.”
He wasn’t going to say anything else. Most times they could use their discretion, he’d been told. In this case he’d felt the same way. The woman was at fault. Running the light and speeding were going to be bad enough, the texting one didn’t need to be added on but not his problem.
He noticed that in this area, the locals stuck together. It was a good trait he figured but nothing he’d ever experienced in his life until he moved to Mystic.
“You’ve got blood on you,” Daisy said. “Is that from Heather?”
He looked down and saw the stains on his pants. Guess he should have gone home to change but had just wanted to get here as fast as he could.
“Looks it,” he said.
Daisy started to cry again and all that calm he always had went right out the window. “I’m sorry. I’m just so emotional.”
“But you said she’d be fine,” he said. “Right?”
“Yeah. I know you two kind of have a thing.”
“I guess,” he said. “I mean, I’m not sure what is going on.”
“Now that you’re working you’ll figure it out. She’s been waiting for you. I know she has.”
He held back the smile. The guilt was there too. “Has she?”
“She hasn’t told me, but I know her. She likes you and when she finds out you saved her.”
He didn’t want that. “One has nothing to do with the other,” he said.
“I know, I know. And she’d be so mad I was saying this to you too. I’m not supposed to know what I do.”
Which told him that Heather might have shared a lot more with her roommate than he did with Zane. He’d never asked because part of him didn’t want to know.
“It’s fine,” he said.
Daisy had stepped back after she’d hugged him so quickly but was still standing close to him. The door opened to the waiting room and he turned to see an older couple come in.
“Jill and Max, this is Luke Remington. He’s the one that saved Heather.”
Heather’s mother moved forward. “Can I give you a hug?”
He’d never been hugged so much in his life. “Ah, sure,” he said.
Jill hugged him and kissed him on the cheek. He figured they might not do that if they knew what he’d been doing with their daughter.
Max shook his hand. “Thank you so much. She’s going to be fine. We are just waiting for the doctor to come in and say we can see her. She’s still in recovery, but she’s tough.”
“That’s right,” Jill said. “I knew we should have never let her move here. If she was home this wouldn’t have happened. Now she has no one to take care of her here, so with any luck I can convince her to return with us.”
“I’m here,” Daisy said. “I can care for her. I’ll take time off until she is moving around. Lily and Rose and Poppy and all the rest of us will be there too. She’ll have more than enough hands.”
Daisy was looking at him, but he couldn’t very well say he’d help out too. “Nonsense,” Max said. “She should be home with her parents where she belongs. We’ve been telling her for years this job was just foolish and if she’d done what she was meant to do, none of this would have happened.”
Luke frowned and felt Daisy touch his hand, then looked at her. He could see she was annoyed over that statement too, but neither of them would say anything to emotional parents.
“I just wanted to come and see how she was doing,” he said. “I heard she’s going to be fine.”
“She should be,” Jill said. “Once we get her all fixed up. My poor baby needed surgery.”
