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“I need to see Gage. Please, Seb. It can’t wait.” Tears were spilling down her cheeks in a steady stream, like sharp shards of glass cutting into his heart.

“Emma, you just woke up. You need to rest. Please, just try to relax. You’re safe.”

“GET GAGE!” she screamed, and he winced at the rawness in her voice. The small beeps from the heart rate monitor she was attached to began chirping wildly.

“Okay, Sprinkles. I’ll get him here. You just rest and I’ll make sure he comes.”

* * *

“Hey, beautiful.” It had been about an hour since she’d screamed at Sebastian, and she had to wait all that time to see Gage. First nurses and doctors swarmed her, checking over her vitals, poking and prodding at her like a piece of meat before they told her everything that had happened over the last week while she was asleep.

An entire week had gone by, and everything in her mind was scrambled. She couldn’t remember what happened. She couldn’t remember how she knew about Luna, but she did. And nothing was going to stop her from getting her back.

As the last nurse left her room, she watched Gage walk in, worry etched on his face.

“Gage.” The relief she felt at seeing him washed over her. Every inch of her body hurt, and she wished for more pain medicine. But it was good that they were tapering her off of them. She needed to think clearly. She needed to remember. Tears poured from her eyes and her words choked in her throat. Gage moved to her bedside, pulling up a chair before clasping her hand in his.

“Hey, none of that now. You’re okay. You’re going to be okay. Didn’t Cap or those fancy doctors tell you? I’ll kick their asses if they all let you think you weren’t going to make it out of this.”

“I-I’m just so h-happy to see you. She’s here, Gage. I need you to find her.”

“Who, Em?”

“Luna.”

His face remained blank as he just sat, staring at her.

“How do you know?”

“Addie…” Emma tried to sit up, but a sharp pain ran across her chest, forcing her to pull a harsh breath in and hiss through her clenched teeth. Jesus, she had no idea broken ribs could hurt so much.

“She’s safe, Emma. Addie and Natalie are both okay. I mean, Natalie was pretty shaken up, but she’s been here everyday since it happened, checking on you.”

The monitor at Emma’s bedside started beeping angrily.

“Hey, what’s wrong?”

They were still in Bell Ridge. The revelation had the room spinning around her. She needed to get herself together. She needed to tell Gage about Addie, but she couldn’t get the words out. A flustered nurse entered her room, shooing Gage away from her bedside, but he didn’t budge. He just stood, holding on to her hand, eyes locked to hers.

“Breathe, Em. You’ve got to breathe, gorgeous, or they’re going to make me leave.”

She couldn’t. The fear of losing Addie now was too much.

“Emma, dear, I’m going to give you a sedative, okay. You need to rest. You’re friends will still be here when you wake.” The nurse pulled a clear liquid out of a vial and slipped it into her IV. She felt the effects almost immediately. Her brain was shutting down, pulling her back into the warmth of darkness, but she had to fight. She had to tell Gage.

“Addie…she…she’s Luna.” She mumbled as the edges of her vision grew blurry, hoping Gage understood.

* * *

Sebastian paced in the waiting room, like he had for hours every day since Marco attacked Emma. Why had she been so insistent on seeing Gage? It had been her first time awake since she came out of surgery, and she hadn’t wanted to see him. There had been a little part of his heart that held some hope, some perilous wish, that she would wake up forgiving him. But that wasn’t the case, and he couldn’t blame her.

He’d left her alone, to be brutalized by the man who had taken everything from her before. It made Sebastian the worst type of man. Even if she could find it in her heart to forgive him, he never would.

“Cap.” He spun around to see Gage standing in the doorway of the waiting room.

Something happened. Sebastian’s stomach dropped. Gage was pale, anxiety pouring off him as he walked across the room.

“What happened, Tracker? Is she okay?”

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