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Chapter Thirty-Two
Watson
“Watson James!” Mom’s voice woke me from my slumber as she burst into the room. It felt like I had been sleeping for thirty seconds, but it could have been thirty days for all I knew. Holt was tucked under my arm, and he gave me a sleepy smile when our eyes met.
“Mom.” I tried to adjust myself in the bed. When Holt tried to get up, I held him firmly in place. He wasn’t going anywhere. Not ever again.
She pressed her lips into a firm line. “Care to explain to me why you got into a car when you were told not to drive?” Her chin started to tremble.
Hell. “I was—”
“You could have been killed,” she whispered. “I know you were worried about your boyfriend, but you should have woken me up. I would have driven you wherever you needed to go. I don’t know what I would have done if something had happened to you.” She brushed the tears from her cheeks.
She called Holt my boyfriend. She didn’t even flinch or make a face. “You don’t... You don’t care that I’m with Holt? That we’re together?” I looked down at his beautiful face. He blushed and buried his face into my neck.
“Sweetheart.” Mom patted my arm. “I’ve always seen the way Holt’s looked at you. It was more than obvious to me and his father that he was in love with you. It just took you a little longer to catch up.”
My brows dipped. “You... you knew?”
She nodded. “Of course. At first, I thought maybe it was just a crush, something innocent, but as you both grew up, and he followed you as you went on to pursue your dreams, I knew right away it was so much more than that.”
“I think, yeah, I’m going to go use the bathroom,” Holt muttered, but I shook my head. “Please, this is super embarrassing.” His eyes pleaded with me.
I cupped his head in my hands. “How did I not notice?” I searched his eyes, the speckles of brown inside the hazel orbs. “What if I had? What if we could have been together sooner, baby?”
“What was meant to be, happened when the time was right,” Mom assured me. “Now let Holt up before he dies of embarrassment.”
Holt jumped up so fast you would have thought his ass was on fire and rushed into the bathroom off my room, shutting the door behind him.
“How’s Dad?” I asked. “Is he...?”
“That’s a story for another time, Watts.” Mom looked sad for a minute. “Your friends are still here.”
I stifled a yawn. Whatever drugs they were given me were already making me tired again. “They should be at the race.”
“She means us, dickhead. Er... Sorry, Joyce.” Killian poked his head in, and Matthias did the same. “We weren’t leaving until we made sure you both were all right.”
It made me smile, knowing they had stuck around. “Come in.” I waved at them. “Thanks for keeping Holt company while I was out. Letting him stay with you.” I gritted my teeth. “Away from fucking Carson Carey.”
“Watson James.” Mom hushed me.
“You have nothing to worry about with Carson,” Holt assured me as he opened the door to the bathroom. “He’s my friend, nothing more.”
My lids felt heavy again. “Right.” My voice sounded slurred.
“They must be giving him the good stuff,” Killian commented.
I felt the mattress dip next to me and Holt’s warmth as he pressed his lips against mine. His breath smelled minty, like he had brushed his teeth.
“You’re the only man for me, Watson James,” he whispered, his thumbs brushing my cheekbones.
“Yeah, baby, I am.”
***
This was absolute torture. This couldn’t be legal what they were doing to me right now.
“Just a little farther, Watson. You can do it,” Holt murmured as I lifted the walker to take another step.
