“You told him to stay out of the training center.” I recognized that as Hunter’s voice. “It’s his own damn fault for going in there.”
“I fucking pounded the shit out of him!” That was Cap, and he sounded fucking worried.
“Hey, I say you gave him exactly what he deserved.”
“I hit a man with a concussion in the head. How the fuck did he deserve that?”
“What did he say to you anyway? It’s not like you to lose your shit like that.”
I’d like to know that as well. I tried to think back, but it just made my head hurt even more.
“He said…Look, if I tell you, this goes no further than here.”
“Scouts honor.”
Cap snorted. “Yeah, like I’d ever fucking believe that.”
“Just tell me what the fuck happened,” Hunter snapped.
“He said that Reid was fucking kissing Caitlin.”
Dead silence. I could have heard a fucking pin drop in the room, and now I realized why I was lying down with a fucking headache again.
Then Hunter snorted out a laugh, then burst into a huge laugh that made me cringe. “Holy shit. Reid was tonguing your little girl?”
“Shut it, asshole.”
“Holy shit. That’s fucking hilarious.”
“It is not,” Cap bit out.
“Well, it sort of is. I mean, think about it, Reid is four years older than your daughter. He was totally robbing the cradle.”
I heard a scuffle and forced my eyes open. Cap had Hunter around the throat and shoved up against the wall. His cheeks were red and shaking with rage. I snorted out a laugh, then instantly regretted it when pain spiked in my head. Cap swung around and sagged in relief.
“Thank Christ. I thought I had put you in a coma.”
“Like you could really get rid of me that easily,” I retorted.
“I wish we could,” Hunter muttered. Cap shot him a glare and he held up his hands. “What? I’m just saying what half of us are thinking.”
“You need to walk away,” Cap growled.
“Are you sure? Because I’d hate for you to attack him again when you remember him allowing his kid to-”
He didn’t get to finish the thought. Cap swung, taking him down to the ground with just one hit. The door swung open and Maggie stood there, a vase of…weapons? I looked closer and grinned. Leave it to Maggie to have an arrangement of weapons made up for me. Of course, they couldn’t be real to get in the hospital, but it was the thought that counted. She stepped over Hunter on the floor and placed the vase on the table beside the bed.
“Sebastian, I think maybe that’s enough violence for one day.”
“Are you feeling okay?” I asked.
“Me? You’re the one in the hospital bed.”
“Yeah, but since when do you not advocate for violence?”
She flung her hands on her hips and pursed her lips. “Against others? Yes. We’re not supposed to make each other end up in the hospital.” She spun around to face Cap. “Tell Alec you’re sorry.”
“What? But he started it,” Cap said, pointing his finger at me. Hunter stood behind Cap, rubbing at his jaw. “He told me that Reid was kissing Caitlin.”
“I don’t care who started it. You made your friend end up in the hospital. You’re lucky I don’t make you walk over and kiss him to make it better.”
Cap shuddered and turned to me with his head hung. “I’m sorry.”
“I accept your apology,” I said, feigning sincerity.
Maggie turned back to me and winked, then fluffed up the pillows behind my head, just to piss Cap off. “So, what’s this about Reid and Caitlin?”
“I don’t know. I walked in on them kissing a few months back.”
“A few months?” Cap shouted.
“I had it under control. Besides, you know Sinner would never let anything-”
“Sinner knew about this? Jesus fucking Christ! I’m gonna kill him. I’m gonna rip off his goddamn head.”
“Relax,” I said, trying to hold back my laughter. “They were just practicing. Reid had a thing for Kayla and-”
“So, he was using her?” Cap was fuming now. “Are you telling me that your kid was using my little girl so that he could move on to bigger and brighter pastures?”
My chest ached when he called Reid my kid and I fought the need to rub at the ache. “He’s gone now anyway. Does it really matter?”
That put a damper on the whole thing and Cap stepped back, his anger deflating. Maggie patted my hand, drawing my attention to her.
“We all miss him.”
I nodded, but couldn’t say anything else around the lump growing in my throat.
“What about me?” Hunter asked. “Aren’t you going to make Cap apologize to me?”
Maggie spun around to face him. “Are you in a hospital bed?”
“No,” Hunter grumbled.
“Do you have a concussion?”
“No.”
“Then why would he apologize to you?”
Hunter glared at me and I stuck out my tongue before Maggie could see. The door opened again, only this time, my heart literally fucking stopped in my chest. The love of my life, the one person that I needed more than anything in this world was standing there staring down at me. When she took her first step toward me, my heart slowly started beating again, then started thumping out of control. She was back, and she was here.
“What happened? All I heard was that you were in the hospital.”
I wanted so badly to hold her hand, but she wasn’t reaching out for me. She stayed a few feet away from me, almost like she couldn’t make herself come any closer.
“That may have been my fault,” Cap piped up. “I may have attacked him.”
“For what?”
Cap grumbled under his breath and Maggie stepped in. “That’s not important. Now that you’re here. We’ll leave the two of you alone to talk.”
Florrie looked panicked, like she didn’t want to be in the same room alone with me. I held out my hand to her, hoping and praying
