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"What the hell is going on?" Trevor de onto the truck He went to put his arms around Zoe, but stumbled back as the slare that she’d ever seen on the ly as her eyes narrowed to slits on her husband

For aat his wife until finally he sighed and gestured to Connor "Do you have any rope?"

"Rope?" Connor repeated as Rory asked, "What the hell do you need rope for? She’s in labor!"

"It’s to stop her fro to rip my balls off," Trevor said with a fond smile for his wife, who looked like she wanted to do just that

Definitely the ht an hour later when the ambulance finally showed up just as the twins arrived and she decided against telling Connor that she was "late"

Chapter 36

September

"What time is it?" Rory asked around a yawn as she rolled over onto her side so that she could face hiled to keep her eyes open

"A little after two," he said softly, resisting the urge to go to her and kiss her, because he knew that if he did that he would want more, need more from her and he couldn’t do that to her, not now

"You’re just getting hoet up or open her eyes this time For the first ti hours they put in every day It was probably the only thing stopping Rory fro a million questions that he didn’t want to answer

"Go back to sleep, baby We have to get up in a couple of hours," he said, s for the first tirowl and flopped back over onto her stomach

He walked into her bathroo as pain shot through his battered hand For the last couple of hours he’d been able to ignore the pain in his hands, but now that he wasn’t busting his ass and taking all his frustration and anger out on two by fours and sheetrock, he was starting to feel all the dae he’d done to his hands He held up his hands and cursed

Shit!

His hands were torn up, bloodied, blistered and he could hardly er tips and down his arms Over the past ht adventures, but never like this He’d be lucky if he could et infected and he’d be seriously screwed

He walked over to the bathroom sink and carefully opened the medicine cabinet When he didn’t spot what he needed, he closed the door and looked beneath her sink, cursing as crippling pain shot through his hands, but at least he found what he was looking for He grabbed the bottle of peroxide and stood up only to have the bottle ripped from his hand