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Lexi chuckles and Gray and I share a relieved look over the bed

"Okay," Lexi says, her eyelids dropping "But let et a little sleep first I'm afraid this birthday celebration has me worn out"

I start to panic as her face goes lax as she falls asleep, but a nurse fortuitously walks in

"Shouldn't we be keeping her awake or so at the end of Lexi's bed over on Gray's side

The nurse smiles at me briefly "She's fine She's just sleepy from the pain medication the doctor ordered Her CT scan was clear We should be able to transfer her to a roo to eat She'll be sleeping, I'm sure"

"I'o of Lexi's hand so I can reach behind me to pull a chair up to the side of her bed

"Me neither," Gray says just as ada the same

The nurse shrugs her shoulders and walks out, leaving us to watch over our girl

Chapter 28

Lexi

"I'ia says as she pushes up out of one of the guest chairs in my hospital room She arches her back, which I' up with my dad and Gray at 6 AM I s her every move

I' on between thes for each other My dad seeia's presence

Alive, youthful, and oh so very happy I can't judge his happiness level before her coht now he's a satisfied man

It's quite possibly the best thing that has happened since I've come into the Brannons' lives

Oris that I have a new family, as evidenced by the fact that my dad and sister have been here since the crack of dawn They were not happy when the nurses ran theht, or so I was told I was pretty zonked and have vague ia hovering over ht and Ro in a chair near my bed The nurses couldn't make him leave, but then hehours because he was gone when the others arrived

"I'll join you," s it to his ia to blush and stammer as she calls him a charmer

Gray and I share a silent laugh with each other as atch those two crazy lovebirds flutter around

So freaking cute

Dad bends over ently "Be back soon Want anything?"

"I'ia pats the top of ht blanket, and one of the few places I don't actually hurt That accident knocked lad no one was seriously hurt Sadly, it was a twenty-year-old kid who hit uely remember him at my hich I'd shattered with the side ofat me if I was okay I sort of feel bad for him, as he was terrified, and when the police officer arrived, he had to practically drag him away from me

Once Dad and Georgia leave the room, Gray leans toward my bed froia were sitting and whispers, "Are they the cutest or what?"

"Totally the cutest," I agree

"You know, I never thoughtup It was just hiirl could have I never felt anything was lacking, but I was really shortsighted not to think that so for him"

"You were a child," I point out

Gray rolls her eyes at rew into an adult, and still didn't think twice about it"

I refrain fro, as my shoulder won't tolerate it, but instead offer, "Maybe he didn't need someone before Maybe he was completely happy with just you I meanhe's awrong with his being focused on you"

I get another eye roll and Gray says, "That's true, but I think once I left the nest, he could have spent so to find someone"