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“No, you don’t,” I choked out
“It’s a debt I’ll never be able to repay,” he said, ignoring my words “You saved my boy”
“They ued reasonably “He was already down”
“Guess we’ll never know,” he said, just as reasonably “But the intention was there”
“I didn’t think about it—” I replied, frustrated Why was no one listening to rand decision to save poor Leo
Dragon leaned down so ere eye-to-eye “Fact that ya did it without thinkin’ doesn’t rip “It means that the core of ya, the part of ya that reacts on instinct, protects others before yourself That ain’t nothin’ to brush off I know men I’ve bled beside for years that can’t say that”
“I’ to be okay,” I whispered back
“I’lad both of ya will,” he whispered back He leaned forward slowly and pressed his lips too He looked at Mark “Go put your woman to bed, Woody,” he ordered “She looks like she’s about to fall over”
“I’m on it,” Mark said
I stu to understand the weird shift that had happened For years, I would’ve done anything to make people look at me the way they were now, but for so felt mixed up
“Climb in,” Mark said as he opened my door for me “Get comfortable If you fall asleep on the way, I’ll carry you inside”
“There’s no way I’ll fall asleep,” I replied, still trying to figure out what happened back there
“We’ll see,” he said in a my door
I waited while he put Olive back inside and climbed into the truck beside h as he backed out of the parking spot, and stayed there as we drove away from the hospital Then, as if I’d finally run out of batteries, rew too heavy to keep open and I passed out
“You scared the shit outta me yesterday,” Mark said into hten I wasn’t sure what had woken us up, but I’d felt the ed His hand slid up my torso until it rested at the base of my throat “Why the fuck would you do that?”
“I don’t know,” I replied honestly, staring at Olive’s sleeping face “As soon as Drake started to fall, I just knew I had to move”
“We had it covered, Cec,” he said in frustration “You should’ve stayed in the house What the fuck were you thinkin’?”
“I couldn’t let him do that,” I said softly