Page 116 of Falling for the Boss's Son

Before she could argue, Jesse made eye contact with the paramedic. The man nodded and they started toward the elevator.

Being Blake Masters’s son came with its share of benefits. One of them was that no one questioned him when he climbed into the ambulance next to Cassie.

He held her hand as they drove to the hospital. His head was swirling with questions, but they weren’t alone. His questions would have to wait until later.

The hospital was bustling with activity when they arrived. They were set up in a room and left to wait.

Jesse sat next to her, not able to take his gaze off the marks on her wrists.

“I’m okay.” Her whispered words did nothing to calm him.

“You were lucky. What possessed you to go into the stairwell alone after I’d told you not to go to the sixth floor?”

She paled at the reminder. “I heard a noise.”

He stood and walked the length of the room before looking at her again.

There was a knock on the door a second before it opened and a woman wearing scrubs walked in. She spent the next ten minutes going over Cassie’s chart and checking her vitals.

He stood in the corner, observing while she worked.

When the nurse finished, she let them know the doctor would be in soon and left, closing the door behind her.

Several moments passed in silence before Cassie spoke. “I’m sorry.”

He met her gaze and held it. “Do you not understand how important you are to me? How much I love you? This isn’t a game to me, Cass.”

“It’s not a game to me, either. I love you, too.”

To his surprise, there was another knock at the door, but it wasn’t the doctor. It was two police detectives. They asked a lot of questions, and Cassie relayed what had happened to her.

“Did either of the women give any indication of why they’d done this?” the male detective asked.

Instead of answering, Cassie closed her eyes and brought a hand up to her head like it was pounding. He wasn’t sure why, but he got the impression she didn’t want to answer the detective’s question.

“We should let you get some rest. I know it’s been a long day.” The female detective removed a card from her pocket and handed it to Jesse. “We’ll be in touch in a day or so, but if she thinks of anything before then, give us a call.”

“Thanks.” Jesse tucked the card into his pocket.

The two detectives left the room, leaving them alone again. He was going to ask Cassie why she’d avoided the question, but there was another knock at the door.

A man stressed in scrubs walked into the room and introduced himself as Dr. Jasper. He inspected Cassie’s injuries, taking some extra time looking over her head wound. Cassie lay there stoically, allowing the doctor to poke and prod, only wincing a couple of times.

Jesse wanted to do something. He didn’t like this feeling of helplessness he felt. When they’d left, Craig’s men hadn’t yet found Sandy or Crystal and Jesse hadn’t wanted to step away from Cassie long enough to see if they’d been located.

Once the doctor was finished, he wrote some notes on his tablet, then addressed Cassie. “I don’t think you have a concussion, but I’d like you to rest for the next three days. No television. No reading. And try to avoid bright lights. I’d rather be safe than sorry when it comes to head trauma.” The doctor looked toward Jesse. “It would be best if she wasn’t left alone.”

“She won’t be.” He’d make sure of it.

“Does that mean I can go home?” Cassie asked.

The doctor smiled at her, the first one he’d seen from the man since he strolled into the room. “I’ll send the nurse in to get your bandaged up, then we’ll get your discharge paperwork going and get you out of here, all right?”

“Thanks.” Cassie smiled, although it didn’t quite reach her eyes. She looked exhausted.

It took another hour for the nurse to bandage all of Cassie’s wounds and the doctor to complete her discharge paperwork. Not knowing what was going on with Crystal and Sandy was driving Jesse nuts, but there was no way he was leaving Cassie alone.

When they walked out of the ER and into the waiting room, Jesse was ready to call for a ride when he noticed his dad’s driver, Micheal, sitting near the entrance. Jesse wheeled Cassie over to him.

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