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"Keep talking," he told the old man "Cal, isn’t it?"

"Yes," the old man said cautiously

"What do you ain?"

He hesitated "I’d better not say anymore without my lawyers"

Within three minutes, pandemonium erupted in the apartment Police units stormed the place Deke led the suspect out by his nape and prodded hiun

After the police verified Deke’s credentials, they were cool And he turned all his attention to the EMTs working on Kimber

He detailed the cut on her arm calmly "Why the hell is she still unconscious?"

"You family?"

Oh, this shit "I’m her…" Boyfriend? Fiancé? Father of her child? "She’s mine"

"Your wife?"

"Not…yet"

"Sorry No inforiven out to nonfamily members," said one as they carried her out on a stretcher

Deke couldn’t resist touching her face, her shoulder, as they passed He followed them out to the ambulance "Let me ride with her"

"I’m sorry, sir Family only"

Fuck fa her? And don’t tell et her family there"

The EMT rattled off the name of a hospital Deke didn’t knohere it was, but he’d find it

"I’ you"

"If you can keep up"

Deke resisted the urge to snort He’d crawl naked across broken glass toHe watched as they shut Kih the s on her, stabilizing her She’d lost a lot of blood She still hadn’t coine on the a into the driver’s seat and hauling ass across the parking lot to track with the ambulance down the lonely street, to the hospital…and an uncertain prognosis for Kier the way Heather had, but if Ki wheel, Deke willed the thought away

No Fuck no! He loved Kimber Wanted her Always Even with the baby Lots of the Just as long as she lived…

CHAPTER 21

Deke slung his Hu space at the hospital and hauled ass across the parking lot to the e

When would Ki no answers balled a roaring frustration in his chest And fear Couldn’t forget that

Even at this distance, he could see the EMTs unloading Kimber out of the back of the a

He’d called thean lived just a few blocks away, so they’d beat hiress out of the vehicle, through the autoan looked ready to crawl out of his skin as they followed the gurney

Deke caught up to the guys, and they nodded absently in greeting

"Are you the family?" a fiftyish nurse asked thean and hilance at Deke Oh shit The whole faain Hunter had the power to cut him off at the balls on this one…

"He saved her life He stays"

Deke breathed a sigh of relief

"Anything I should know about her ic to anything?"

"Sulfa-based antibiotics"

The nurse jotted that down, then regarded Hunter again with kind blue eyes "Is she taking any other ed stiffly, seely annoyed with himself

"I don’t know"

Deke cleared his throat "No"

The brothers turned to look at hiiven hirateful Yeah, they were thankful he’d saved their sister froht now, but he doubted their appreciation was going to last

"Thanks," Hunter murmured

"History of head trau out?"