Total pages in book: 76
Estimated words: 75643 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 75643 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 378(@200wpm)___ 303(@250wpm)___ 252(@300wpm)
The trauma room that I’d incidentally followed the crowd into.
I’d sat by Landry’s side talking to her as the doctors and nurses worked her over, stopping the bleeding from her wound and getting her to the point where she could be taken up to surgery. Wade arrived and took my place, but still, I didn’t leave.
It was when Castiel arrived that Pru started to object.
The commotion of controlling her bleeding had died down, and now she was relatively comfortable and stable as we waited for them to move her to surgery, which would be happening any minute.
“All right, it’s time to go,” Pru said with a shake of her head. “I realize that y’all are worried, but you can’t all be in here.”
“We’ll stay out of the way,” I promised, backing up to put myself against the wall.
“We’ll behave, Pru.” Bayou promised. “But don’t make him leave.”
With Wade’s tortured eyes on his wife, I knew he wouldn’t willingly leave. Then I’d be obligated to make him leave because my girl wanted us gone—and that altogether wasn’t a good position to be in.
I didn’t want to come in between Wade and his girl.
Landry became agitated when Wade backed away from her, and she opened her eyes for a few seconds. Long enough to say ‘don’t go’ before she passed back out again.
That cemented it. Wade wouldn’t be leaving without a fight.
I silently cursed.
Pru walked out of the room long enough to grab a computer that was sitting near the nurses’ station, then rolled it back in. She pulled some med out of her pocket and scanned the label when Wade said, “What are you giving her?”
Pru didn’t look up as she continued with what she was doing. “Giving her some meds that’ll help keep her calm for the next few minutes while we get the operating room ready for her arrival.”
“Will it knock her out?” I asked.
“Likely,” she answered me, her eyes flickering up to me and back to the screen.
God, she was sexy as hell when she worked.
“If she’s knocked out, then we won’t get answers as to what happened,” Castiel butted in.
“Are they going to help with her pain?” Wade pushed.
Pru shook her head. “No. Just control her consciousness and keep her calm.”
“Can you not give it to her?” Wade asked. “I need her to answer a few questions.”
Pru looked torn. “She can’t get worked up. She has to stay calm. Getting her worked up makes her blood pump, and that’ll cause her to bleed…which she can’t afford to do.”
Wade looked like his chest was ripped right open by Pru’s words.
He nodded his head. “I’ll keep her calm. She’ll be okay as long as I’m here. But…we have to know. We have to figure out what happened so we can better protect her.”
“You don’t have long,” Pru murmured. “Five minutes max.”
Pru relented, but she didn’t roll the computer away or put the meds up. She placed it back in her pocket, just in case.
“Baby, please wake up.”
Wade’s tortured voice had my stomach clenching.
It clenched even harder when Landry’s eyes blinked open and snapped back closed.
“Baby, please.” Wade dropped his forehead to rest on hers.
The pure love and devotion that I could see between the two of them was awe-inspiring.
I wanted that.
I wanted that bad.
I hadn’t realized how badly until right then.
My eyes flicked up to Pru, who was watching me, and not Landry and Wade.
Something passed between us, a knowledge that we both craved that intimacy, and my spine stiffened.
I wanted that with her.
She wanted that with me.
Landry moaned, drawing our attention away from each other.
Pru moved with a penlight to Landry’s head, and Wade blocked her from getting too close with his big body.
Pru’s eyes narrowed. “Sir, I’m not going to ask you again to stay out of our way. If I have to repeat myself, you’ll be removed from the ER.”
“Listen, Girl,” I found myself saying. “I know that you’re thinking that you’re helping, but you’re not. You know how she was acting when she was brought in. The only way she calmed down was when he had her hand. Trust me when I say you need him.”
I shouldn’t have said that.
I really shouldn’t have.
The moment the words were out of my mouth, I realized that I should’ve held my tongue.
Pru had been very nice about allowing us to be in here. I knew that had I not been who I was to her, none of us would be in here
And I’d just shit on all that she’d allowed me to do by contradicting her in a room full of my club brothers.
Pru stiffened even further as she turned to look at me with glaring eyes. “I agree,” she said calmly. “That he helped her calm down. But, I can also achieve those same desired effects by using drugs. And, since y’all for some reason think it’s better that she be awake so she can tell you what you think you need to know right now, I’m allowing that to happen. But, I’m trying to work here. She’s losing blood. I cannot have her getting harmed worse because y’all won’t stay the fuck out of my way.”