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I shake aze back to the charms to look at them just another moment before I close the box I set it on the bed beside me and immediately rise up to my knees on the bed I scoot in closer to Ryker and drapemy hands behind his neck A very soft kiss and I whisper, "That’s the nicest and ift I ever received"

He can hear the e before hi But Ryker is a s and his judgment He knows that I’m the type of wohtens the ht?"

I grin and nodthat, and maybe even a little more"

His arms co us sideways onto theeach other,me by my hips

Our noses almost touch, and I smile at hihtly, then flips to his back so I can give him my own little present

Chapter 15

Ryker

I burst through the eency room doors, absolutely frantic and lost as to what to do When I got a call twentyht I was having a stroke I broke out in a sweat, h the roof, and ht workout because we had a ho to Gray on the phone

She’s in Boston for a few days and getting ready to head across the Charles River to MIT where she’d be giving her presentation at their Sports Analytics Conference I was just wishing her luck when another call started beeping in Although I hated to get off the phone with Gray, because I was indeed , I knew I couldn’t ignore it

After a hasty goodbye to Gray, I answered the call and faced ht from my house to the hospital I was still in rab my wallet, and was about to come out of my skin with fear because I knew very little about what happened to Ruby All I was told was that she fell off the ht she had a broken aro ahead and call an ambulance to take her to the hospital, and that is where I really started freaking out

How bad was it that it required an aistration desk, and when the wo and round with recognition She starts to give irl smile, but whatever she sees on my face makes her back off

"Can I help you?" she asks crisply