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“I do, though. I should have just grabbed my phone when you asked. Maybe then, none of this would’ve happened.”

He tugs on my arm and pulls me onto the bed next to him. I carefully position myself against him with my head on his chest avoiding the different wires hooked up to him.

“I can have Jeremy take you home. They said they’re going to at least keep me overnight.”

“I don’t want to leave you,” I say sharply without even thinking, causing him to laugh. He kisses the top of my head and holds me tighter.

“You don’t have to go if you don’t want to, Little Rabbit. You can stay right here with me for as long as you want.”

I know it’s still a few hours before visiting hours are over, but still. After sitting in the waiting room panicking all this time, I don’t want to leave him now that I’m back in his arms. This feeling is crazy.

“Or until they kick me out for the night,” I huff.

“Let them fucking try.”

CHAPTER 48

NOAH

TEN MINUTES PRIOR

The first thing I remembered when waking up was the sound of Jeremy screaming my name. I remembered the distant sounds of Willow crying, which were breaking my heart, but there was nothing that I could do.

“She’s been a wreck, dude,” Jeremy says as the nurses continue to check my vitals and ask me questions.

“Well, between what we were talking about when you showed up, then the shit you said, she was already upset.”

“What the fuck did I…Oh. Sorry about that. I didn’t even think about it. I was just irritated because of your father, which, by the way, showed how much of a fucking asshole he truly is.”

I knew my father wouldn’t be bothered to even come up here, let alone check up on me.

“Where is she?”

“The waiting room still, I think. Jenna is with her, though, so I don’t know if she’s going to take her home.”

My heart monitor spikes as I struggle to sit upright. The waves of nausea hit me causing the room to spin.

“Sir, I need you to stay lying down,” the nurse instructs. If my head didn’t feel like I was on a Tilt-A-Whirl, I would’ve jumped out of this bed already.

“I need to see her.”

The nurse glances back at Jeremy then the other nurse before nodding.

“You can go get her after we finish up. He does need to stay calm, so only one person can come back at a time,” she says to Jeremy, who only looks at me and nods.

“So, how bad is it?” I ask jokingly.

It can’t be that bad, can it? I don’t seem to have any memory issues, and my speech is fine. My head is just throbbing.

“You have a serious concussion. It’s a grade two. And also a hairline linear fracture on the back of your skull.”

“When can I go home?”

The nurse softly laughs and shakes her head at me. She’s a bit older than my mother would have been, and she looks at me with those same kind and loving eyes.

“Typical guy. Not a fan of hospitals, are we?”

“I just want to be with my woman.”