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Dallas

To say I was exhausted would have been the understate a lot

It was a good tired, however After a twelve-hour shift in the ER where I had been run off ency after another, I’d stayed over and helped bring Lana and Drake Stevenson’s daughter into the world My beautiful little ‘niece’ was healthy and perfect Neveah was already a heartbreaker and I was going to teach her everything I knew about busting balls

I left the new parents alone and took Neveah to the nursery so that Lana could get a good night’s sleep before her fa Thankfully I had the day off to in Maybe Linc would make me some pancakes

At the thought ofme know that I hadn’t eaten since breakfast before , I pulled out the little money I always carried withmachine Most days that was how I had lunch because I was too busy to stop for a decent meal

Opening the door to the waiting roo machine Funyuns or a Snickers?

Two steps inside the er suddenly consu e, the onlyin the corner of the dilued to ether as reet My typical reaction to the Rock God

He had been in the delivery room with Lana and Drake the entire time she had been in labor and then when she pushed Neveah out into the world I hadn’t said a word to hi to stress ly painful—ti and everyone, focusing on all the training I had gotten during my rotation for obstetrics It hadn’t ever been e any ti to be with her for such an awe-inspiring moment

Axton and Lana’s father, Cole Steel, had kept quiet during the whole six hours of labor I figured they had thought that as long as they remained mute Lana wouldn’t scream and toss them out She hadn’t paid theh her pain Crazy bitch hadn’t wanted an epidural Drake had been pretty strong during the whole thing, even if I had seen the terrified look on his face as he helped bring his daughter into the world

My hunger forgotten for the moment, I started to turn back to the door I didn’t have the energy to deal with Axton tonight Hell, I doubted I would ever have the energy to deal with his well and both normally drained enda and never would be again That only left fighting

“Dallas…” His tone was al, unless it was for h to make me pause with my hand on the doorknob but not to turn around

It shouldn’t hurt this much to be in the same room with hiht to keepI would have been able to reinforce the walls he had forced me to build around my heart