Page 46 of Her Honorable Hero

Griff pulled out his phone and texted Dex Evans and found out the details of Jack and Beth’s upcoming wedding.

“You’re thinking pretty hard again,” Jack said as he put four bags of food in the backseat.

“Hell, you’re getting married in two months in San Antonio.”

“Yep.” Jack pulled onto the freeway. “Mom’s chartered a plane for folks.”

“What? Isn’t that excessive?”

“That’s my mom. She wanted to make sure everyone would be able to make it to the wedding. She remembers when we didn’t have two dimes to rub together. It was important to her that everybody who’s important to me here in California would be able to make it.” Jack had an indulgent look on his face. “So what does your Miranda do for a living?”

“She’s a hotshot consultant. She does project management, making sure everybody works to the terms of the agreed upon contract.”

“And you think you’ll be able to convince her to just move in with you? Again, I say, good luck with that,” Jack laughed.

He took the freeway exit to the hospital and Griff considered his friend’s point. He was right, he was going to have to be very careful on how he presented his solution to Miranda. He didn’t want to have a battle on his hands. However, he was extremely good at battles.

“Are you going into sniper mode?” Jack asked.

“What do you mean?”

“I’ve seen you wait out the enemy for thirty-two hours. You can be a patient son-of-a-bitch when you get a target in your sites.”

“In that case, I guess I am. But I’m using my powers for good.”

They were soon at the hospital. When they got to the waiting room, they found Mason and his wife, Sophia, with her little brother Billy Anderson. Most of his Black Dawn team members were there too, along with Drake Avery.

Billy rushed up to Griff, clearly distraught. “They said Miranda is in a coma. Mason said you would know the most. How is she doing? How did the surgery go? When is she going to wake up?”

Griff put both of his hands on the young man’s shoulders.

“Breathe, Billy. The surgeon said the operation went perfectly. They were able to alleviate a lot of the swelling and stop some of the bleeding that was happening. As the swelling goes down, she should wake up in a few days.”

“Days?” The kid was clearly choked up. He was emoting what Griff was feeling.

“Her brain just needs time to rest and heal. We got her here in time, they don’t think there was any brain damage.”

“Griff, let us know what we can do to help,” Mason said.

“You can tell us where a vending machine is, I didn’t get drinks,” Jack said holding up the sacks of food.

“Billy’s all over that,” Sophia said with a smile. She handed her purse to Billy. “You know where the coins are.”

“I need to get back in there with Miranda,” Griff said, eyeing the hallway.

“No, first you’re going to eat.” Gray Tyler, his lieutenant said firmly as he stood next to him. At that moment. he realized he was boxed in by him and Jack.

Fuck.

Then his stomach growled.

“Why don’t you come sit next to me?” Sophia suggested. She was unpacking the food and laying it out on the table in front of her. He reluctantly sat down, and Gray sat down on his other side. Sophia handed Griff a steak sandwich, and all reluctance flew out the window as he started eating with gusto.

Most of the men ate standing up. He turned to Gray after he had finished his sandwich. “Have you heard from Josiah? How is Scarlett doing? Did anything change while I was gone?”

“Damn, I forgot for a second that you’re family friends with the Captain,” Gray said ruefully. “Mrs. Hale is already trying to get out of bed so she can come see Miranda. There were more flowers delivered to Miranda’s room. It’s getting out of hand. Beth made sure to keep the ones from the Hollister’s.”

“Who?”