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“Anette, go and help them.” he commanded, jerking his head towards my truck.
The woman hesitated for a moment, looking him up and down then frowning at me. She then jolted as she spotted Meg in the passenger seat and jumped into action. I opened the door and pulled Meg out as gently as I could.
“What happened to her?” Anette asked, but I didn’t respond.
She held her arms out to me and I surveyed her briefly. She looked strong enough, so I shifted Meg into her waiting arms, and she grunted softly before hurrying inside with my girl.
I moved to the back next and found Cooper unconscious across the seats. I was half tempted to call the doctor out to the truck to handle him, but I selfishly wanted to allow Meg a few moments of the doctor’s attention before he realised what shape her best friend was in. I wouldn’t let him die, but I needed her to be ok too.
I lifted the man as carefully as I could. He was tall and in pretty good shape, but I was in better shape. Lifting him wasn’t difficult and less than half a minute later I was stepping through the front door of the insane house. No, not house, my parents live in a house. Mansion. This was a freaking mansion.
I stood in the foyer with the unconscious man in my arms and spun in a circle. Where was everyone? There was a staircase in front of me, but I doubted they’d bother going upstairs. To my left were closed double doors, to the right of the staircase was a short looking hallway with two more sets of double doors, nope not there. I turned further to the right and looked down a long hallway that seemed to span across the rest of the house. The floor was splattered with tiny red droplets, and I grinned as I followed them.I should be a detective.
The droplets lead into a large room with a double bed in the centre of it and boxes stacked up against a wall. The bed seemed out of place, and I wondered why the hell someone had even put it in here.
Meg was laying on one side of the bed blinking at me with a sleepy smile. She was still with us. A dark blue blanket was draped over her, covering her injured leg and ruined dress. I noticed the doctor was hanging a bag of blood that was already hooked up to her arm.
I placed Cooper’s body down on the bed beside her and she slowly turned her head to face him. A small sob left her, and I hurried around to her side of the bed to comfort her. The doctor let me past, and I took her hand in mine and whispered reassuringly to her. The doctor ignored us and began working on Cooper, hooking him up to a bag of blood too before removing his shirt and examining his wounds.
Adonis came into the room holding a bowl of warm water and I noticed a bottle of whiskey shoved under his arm. He placed the bowl down on the floor beside Doc and opened the bottle, took a long swig then leaned over the end of the bed to hand it to me. I took it from him and sipped the amber liquid. It burned a path down my throat, and I shuddered then tossed back three large gulps.
“I’ve given her something for the pain, it isn’t likely that she will stay awake much longer. Once the bag empties, I’ll get the bullet out, she’s lucky it hit where it did. She could easily have died from this.” Doc said to Adonis, and I took another sip of whiskey as Meg’s eyes closed and her breathing slowed.
“Thank you, Doc. And Coop? What’s the damage here?” Don said in a rough, tired voice.
“We’ll have to wait and see. I can patch him up, but he lost a hell of a lot of blood.”
“He can’t die.” I muttered and both men looked at me. “What? He can’t, do you know what that will do to her?”
Not only that, but this guy had killed that piece of shit Grey. No matter what happened to dad, I would forever be grateful to Cooper for what he did.
“Of course I know what it’ll do to her!” Adonis snapped and I raised my brows at him.
“Mi dispiace, sorry.” he said, pushing his hand through his short black hair. “I’m tired. I’m worried. I need to lay down.”
“Go then, you’re no good to her if you’re like this.” I said in a harsh tone.Maybe I needed a little nap too.
“Come with me?” he asked, and I looked down at Meg.
“She will be fine here with me.” Doc said, looking between me and Adonis with a tight smile. It didn’t look right on his face, I doubted he had many reasons to smile with his job. I wondered if he worked in a normal hospital or practice too. The gangs probably paid better than anyone else could though.
I drew my gaze away from our sleeping woman and reluctantly followed Adonis out of the room with the bottle of whiskey in hand. He closed the door behind us and when it clicked shut, he let out a shaky noise that sounded pretty close to being a sob.
My eyes widened and I grabbed him before he could sink to the floor.
“Are you?” I fumbled for words. “Are you going to cry?”
He shook his head with furious determination.
“You can, if you need to.”
“No, it’s just too much though. Her, in that bed, like that. Cooper. Sal. My uncle, he was staying in there.” He gestured to the room we had left Meg in and the weird set up of the room made a little more sense.
“How are you ok right now? Have you heard from your mother?” he asked.
“I’m not, but I think I’m still in shock. It’s not very often that I see shit like that. And no, I haven’t heard anything.” I said and tugged on his arm to usher him down the hall.
I had no idea where I was going, so I stopped at the bottom of the stairs and allowed Adonis to lead the way up. He turned off to the right as we reached the top and opened the second door along the hall. It opened up into a room that I was sure was Adonis’s. I’d been living in his apartment; I knew his style.
