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Prologue

Let’s recap from where we left off, shall we?

“You left ed to open his eyes

“You didn’t leavenot to cry or show him how relieved she was that he was finally awake

“Had to,” he said, glancing around the room as she poured him a small cup of water “Where is everyone?”

“It’s three in the etting kicked out of a buffet,” she said, earning a weak smile from him

“Take a sip,” she ordered, holding the cup in front of hiood hand

“Yes,a sip

After a minute, she pulled the cup away and placed it on the tray, wishing that his father was here to help with this, but around an hour ago Mary had finallyback to the hotel and getting so here by herself, terrified that she was about to find out that Danny was paralyzed

She should call a doctor, but instead she found herself cli up by his side She needed this after everything they’d been through over the past teeks, she needed a moment before their lives went to hell and stayed there

“What happened?” he asked, pressing a kiss against the top of her head as he reached over and placed his hand carefully on her cast

“I beat the shit out of your brothers,” she admitted with a sniffle

He chuckled weakly as he pressed another kiss against the top her head “That’s not what I meant”

“You beat the shit out of your father,” she said, still regretting that she hadn’t been there to stop that “Your brothers had to pull you off and in the process your back was broken and the scar tissue fro free and caused so and remove the scar tissue, but your back-”

“I had weak spots in my vertebrae froled not to cry again “I was supposed to take it easy”

“They broke,” she said, her voice breaking

He was quiet for a long time before he asked, “Was my spine compromised?”

“Can youthe question that they’d been asking hiained consciousness and terrified of his answer

“Yes,” he said, and just to prove it, he brought his leg up slowly, bending it before he slowly returned it back to the bed and just like that, she lost it

“Shhhh, don’t cry, Tinkerbelle I’ly

“I’ to stop, but heaven help her, she couldn’t

He’d scared the hell out of her!

“Did you really beat up ain and obviously trying to distract her

“Yes,” she admitted with a sniffle

“Why?”

“Because they hurt you”

“It was an accident,” he said, but she didn’this tone

“I don’t care,” shepain in her hand She could take one of the painkillers the doctors had prescribed her, but she’d been out of it enough over the last teeks to last her a lifetime

“I shouldn’t have hit hi and I just lost it”

“Your father’s not mad”