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“Your ego will protect you, I’m sure,” she replied dryly.
“This is true.” He grinned. “But I’m staying the night. No arguments.”
Abby knocked before walking into the room carrying a tray. “Doctor Martin said to bring you one of her protein drinks to see if you liked them.”
Okay, maybe the doctor had been telling the truth after all. That helped settle her nerves even further.
“Someone will collect that tray later,” Abby told her. “You hit the buzzer if you need me, okay?”
“All right. Thank you.” She smiled at the other woman.
“Welcome, Lilac. Oh, don’t try going to the bathroom by yourself just yet. Doctor Martin is worried you might get dizzy and collapse. So, call for me, okay?”
Great. Just what she needed. Someone to escort her to the bathroom. How had things gotten to this?
“I’ll help her,” Tanner assured Abby.
Abby eyed him. “All right. I guess you won’t let her fall over and hit her head.”
“Of course not!” Tanner looked offended.
Before Lilac could offer her opinion, Abby left.
“What if I don’t want you to take me to the bathroom?” she asked him huffily.
“Guess I could arrange a bed pan.”
“Tanner!”
He just grinned at her. Urgh, he was terrible. His phone started beeping with messages. Pulling it out, he sighed before putting it face down on the nightstand.
“Um, shouldn’t you read those? Answer them?”
“Eh, it’s just my brothers. Some from my sisters-in-law. I’ll answer them when you’re napping.”
“I just woke up.”
“They’ll wait.”
“Tanner,” she chided.
“What? They’re just being nosy. Wanting to come to the hospital to meet the new Mrs. Tanner Malone.”
“Tanner! You didn’t tell them that we got married!”
He grinned. “Nah, but I could.”
She rubbed her hand over her face. “I can’t believe this is happening. I was so stupid!”
“Okay, you need to stop doing that.” He drew her hand away from her face. “You were not stupid.”
“I was, Tanner! I pushed you away when I really didn’t want you to go. I regretted it so much, and I was worried that you wouldn’t want anything to do with me anymore. My brain wouldn’t shut up. I . . . I couldn’t sleep, so I thought it was a good idea to go running at three in the morning to clear my head. What if I’d died? What then?”
“Do not say things like that,” he told her darkly. “You are not going to die.”
“I was such an idiot.”
“One more time,” he said in a low stern voice.
