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“It’s not a good idea.”
“You don’t understand. I have to, and I won’t take no for an answer.”
Used of fading into the background and doing everything that everyone asked me to, this time would be different. While I didn’t have the same power as a Titan, I remembered my mother telling me mine was even far greater. If there was ever a time to use it, that would be now.
“I can bring you to him for a few minutes, but only if you promise to stay in the wheelchair the entire time,” she said as she relented.
“Yes, of course,” I told her, and a few minutes later, she had wheeled me to his room.
She had gone inside to see if he was awake and willing to see a visitor, and that was when the nerves truly started to take over. The last time we had seen one another had been on bad terms, but he had come to my rescue which had to count for something. Callum said he loved me, and I had never believed him. Or maybe I had, but I hadn’t wanted to because what we had could never last.
At least not the way things were with us at the time. Now, the truth was out and there was no need to sneak around in secrecy. We could be together like a normal couple, and express our love publicly.
But what if he no longer wants that?
It was a real possibility, but one I wasn’t willing to accept. A few seconds later, my nurse reopened the door, then slowly pushed me inside of his room. Callum was facing the door, and when our eyes locked in on one another’s, a small sob escaped me.
“I’m so sorry,” I cried out to him just as she pushed me all the way to his bed.
He looked over my shoulder at my nurse. “Would you give the two of us a few minutes in private?”
“Of course, Mr. Meyers,” she said. “Just call for one of us nurses when she’s ready to come back.”
I didn’t miss the way that she willingly just obeyed his command, but it didn’t surprise me seeing as he was a Titan. Everyone knew about them, and no one dared to question them. Once the door closed with a click, I looked over at Callum.
“H-How are you doing?” I asked, unsure of how injured he truly was.
“I took a flesh wound to the calf, but I’ll survive.”
His voice was strained which also wasn’t surprising considering everything that had happened. “You were shot?”
He shrugged. “Other than canceling my ski plans for Christmas, I’ll be fine.”
“I can’t help but think that this is all my fault. I—”
“It is,” he said which caused me to pause.
“I’m so sorry. I don’t know how you found me, but I’m grateful that you did.” Not wanting to upset him further, I released the lock on my wheelchair and turned suddenly. Before I could move away, his voice stopped me once more.
“How could you do that to me?”
There was a definite pain in his voice, or maybe I had imagined it because I felt it in my soul. I turned the chair back around and didn’t even try to stop the tears that had sprang to my eyes. “I don’t remember how I got you over there. I was drugged, and everything’s still—”
“Not tonight. I’m talking about the fucking order of protection.”
“I’m even sorrier about that than you’ll ever know.”
“Why did you do it?”
I shook my head wryly, before responding. “Honestly, things ended so bad between us and afterward...”
“What happened afterward, Nicole?”
“I started to receive threatening pictures and notes. I should’ve known it wasn’t you, and—”
“You should have, because I loved you,” he said, and this time there was no denying the pain in his voice, or on his face.
“I didn’t know that Travis knew about us. There were pictures and a Costa Rican dagger. He knew it all, and I thought there was only one other person that knew. He told me I had to go to the authorities, so I did.”
