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“I’o anywhere until he’s completely healed,” I told her

Joe took the ave him, and she promised to stop by the house to check on him the next day

“I knoe need to talk,” Joe said as I helped him back to the car, “but I’m so tired, and I can’t think”

“There’s no reason for you to think All you need to do right now is rest and get better”

When we got to my house, I carried Joe to my roo him in the shower

“I won’t leave the house,” I told hiet here I’htstand”

He frowned “I don’t have it”

“I found it on the floor at your house I saved it for you”

“Thank you,” his words were slurred, and I could tell he was mostly asleep

“If you need anything—anything at all—you call or text me I’ll be back to check on you in a little while, okay?”

He was sound asleep before I left the room

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Joe

When I woke, terror struck i on a soft er a prisoner As the events of the night came back to me, I realized there was a warm presence at my back I had to turn over very slowly My wrist throbbed, and my head ached, but I was alive and here with Devil He’d even told his family about us I didn’t know exactly what that ether now

When I turned to face hi?”

My mouth was dry “Some water”

He slipped from the bed, entered the adjacent bathroolass of water for me When I sat up, I had to close my eyes for a mo a few sips of water

“It’s close to seven,” Devil said

“Shit Does anyone at the precinct knohat happened?”

“We’re taking care of it Don’t worry As far as they know, you were in a car accident and sustained a concussion and torn ligaments in your wrist You’re on medical leave”

“But hoithout any documentation?”

“Do you reht?”

Vaguely “Yes, but—”

“She sent all the docuht?”