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Chance arrived ten minutes later, only a couple of minutes after the police

“Aah, sweetheart, look at you,” heslu Ty’s soaked handkerchief to her ar had slowed down quite a lot already

She felt her inner fortitude crumple like tissue paper when she saw Chance, and she instantly burst into tears She had tried so hard to be strong for Ty Not wanting to make him feel worse than he already did, when all she truly wanted was for hi her and comfort her

Chancenoise while he rounded the desk He was on his knees and had Vicki gathered into his co arms mere seconds later

“There, there, Trouble We’ll get you fixed up in no time,” he muttered into her hair There was a ht and eyes burning with some indefinable emotion, as he watched her cry on Chance’s shoulder He was acco, uniformed EMTs

“Uh” His voice was shaky and hoarse “The ambulance is here”

Chance stood up, giving the EMTs room to work He went to stand in the doorith Ty, who couldn’t seem to take his eyes off Vicki

“You okay, mate?” Chance asked softly, while they stood shoulder to shoulder in the narrow doorway They watched the EMTs check Vicki for concussion and tend to her still-sluggishly bleeding arht of the deep wound on her slender, pale forearm made Ty feel physically ill He had to drive back the nausea that surged up his throat

“She could have been killed Onwatch I…” Ty pressed the nape of his neck, and ran his hand over the shaved hair at the back of his head “I’ to touch her For hurting her He’s lucky I wassure she was okay, or I don’t knohat I would have done to him”

He are of Chance’s searching look on his face, but kept his gaze pinned on Vicki, attuned to her every wince and moan

He had felt gut-punched when he’d walked into the office to find her crying on Chance’s shoulder Fuck, he should have been the one to comfort his woman He should have been the one to hold her and proht

But how could he allow hi deserve it? How could he make promises he wasn’t sure he could keep?

“What the fuck happened, man?” Chance asked

“This asshole demanded to be let in after we’d already closed up for the day I told him to fuck off But Vicki, you know her, she fell for his sob story She said I should let the guy in”