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“Oh no,” Kat added with a laugh “Please, take your sweet ass tiive you a thousand bucks if you take your time”

“I’ll add another thousand,” Virgil offered around a big bite of corn on the cob “If you just go for a walk through the hospital Clear your head”

“I’ll get in on that action,” Terry offered, barely able to contain his laughter “Sorry, bro”

“Fuck you Terry” He let out a loud, booest brother “Before I change my mind”

Calthe s I’d been had

“Want soood for the skin”

She flapped her ar for the small piece I held out to her She took it in both hands and sucked on it “Mht have melted a little

“Yeah, it’s not so bad,” I said proudly toup a little taller as Ava sat on my lap, content with her chicken

“Good preparation,” Virgil offered with a laugh, drawing stares from both Kat and Maisie

I pretended not to get what he ed to stay wherever the fuck she was in her head, even through all the noise and the chaos

I thought—stupidly—that dinner with our boisterous fah to wake her, or at the very least, pull back from where she clearly preferred to be

“Guys,” I said, my voice barely above a whisper as shock and hope warred inside me “Shut the fuck up and look!” I pointed to the bed where Sadie lay, co lashes

The room fell silent as one set of eyes after another turned to the bed To Sadie

“Shit, she’s waking up!” Kat’s whispered words echoed ere all thinking, at least what I was thinking “Do you think she’s been awake before?”

I shook my head “The doctor would have told us Or Thomas”

Maisie frowned and turned to me “Where is Thomas?”

I shrugged “Someone has to be at Lucky Lopez Don’t worry, Provo and Evan are with hi him, but Thomas understood He spent every free moment here with Sadie and wanted us to have some time with her too Just in case He didn’t say that, but he didn’t have to

“Seriously, Jas? I thought ere past this shit”