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“Hailstorm,” Spike corrected.
The men shared a look that had my belly flipping.
“Why do I feel like that is something bad?”
“It’s not something bad,” Spike assured me. “They just have a fully functioning hospital wing.”
“So does thehospital.”
“Baby, listen, it’s okay.”
“It’s not okay.”
“We gotta move him,” Spike said, nodding at Croft.
“This is gonna suck,” Croft warned as both men reached for Rune and dragged him to his feet.
The string of curses he let out and the way he went gray had my heart sinking.
“You’re making it worse!” I cried out.
“Vas,” Croft barked.
Then hands reached for me, pulling me back as the men took Rune away from me.
“No, let me go. I need… he needs…”
But he was already in the garage. The door was lifting. The engine was starting.
And they peeled out of the lot.
“No,” I cried, sinking down to my knees as soon as Vas released me.
“He’s going to be in good hands,” Vas assured me. “They just need to get him there first.”
Before the SUV could possibly get to the corner of the street, I heard bikes rumbling closer.
“Why couldn’t I go?” I whimpered, mostly talking to myself as I rocked on the floor. “I needed to talk to him,” I said as the front door flew open. “He doesn’t know that I love him. I need to tell him…”
“Heya, honey,” a calm, soothing voice said, making me glance over as he crouched down in front of me.
And there he was.
The man Rune would be in twenty-five or so years.
“You need to be with Rune,” I said, sniffling hard.
“His mom is on her way. And I’m gonna go there too. But there’s nothing I can do if he’s going into surgery. And I know he’d want me to check in on you.”
“I want to see him.”
“Okay. I will take you to Hailstorm. But we need you here for a few minutes.”
“We?”
But even as I said it, I became aware of the men swarming the clubhouse.
“What happened?” Fallon called to the room at large, having no idea who saw or did what.
