Page 27 of Nitro

“Oh, I get his body!” Tex yells out just as Archer pulls the trigger.

I nearly die of laughter as a look of complete horror crosses Rooster’s face as he knows Tex is about to have his way with his dead body.

He deserves whatever Tex has planned for him.

Tink

Nitro was placed in a medically induced coma for more than a week. Shyne had tried to get me to come home, but I can’t. He tells me that I don’t owe Nitro anything, but he doesn’t know that I owe him more than I can ever repay. Nitro had saved me when so many others would have just left me there to die. Nitro bared his soul to me in a way that I’m sure no man ever would again. When it comes to finding someone, I know that I can trust completely, Nitro has proved everything to me and then some.

He'd dragged me back from the edge of the darkest place that I’ve ever been and helped me find the light once again even if it meant that he would die for me to do it.

How could I not see where a relationship with him would go?

“Ma’am, it might be a little while longer before he wakes up. It’s all up to his body now.” The nurse tells me as I pace back and forth just waiting for him to open his eyes.

“Okay, thank you.” I tell her, but don’t make any moves to leave. There is nothing that she can say to me that is going to force me from this room.

A sharp knock on the door captures my attention just as the nurse walks out. It’s Maino. I didn’t know him before, but I’ve found out that he is the VP for the Spawns of Chaos. He and Nitro were each given different tasks to take out Rooster. While Maino was busy digging from the prospect end no one knew that Nitro was neck deep in the bullshit that Rooster was doing.

“Is it okay?” Maino asks and I nod my head. All of them are acting like I am his ol’ lady already. I'm not going to correct any of them.

“Still hasn’t woken up yet?”

“No, the doctor says it could be anytime now, but we just have to wait.” I shrug my shoulders and look down at the man who'd sacrificed himself for me.

“You know he is going to wake up right?” Maino reaches over and squeezes my arm.

“Yeah, I know. But will he be different? Everyone says that he may not want anything to do with me now that Rooster is out of the picture. That now that the threat is gone, he may want to put everything behind him. I mean I do to, but I don’t want him to go away. I don’t want him to think he’s a bad man. He’s one of the best men I know.” I hear my voice crack, but I refuse to cry, not when I have so much to live for.

“I don’t think anyone will be letting him forget just how fucking awesome he is any time soon. He saved all of our asses and basically hand delivered Rooster to us.” Maino laughs slightly.

It’s not lost on me that he didn’t say anything about Nitro not wanting me anymore. Maybe the chances of that happening are more than I would like to think.

“You want to go home? I’ll sit with him for a while.” Maino asks. I give him a polite smile.

“If it’s all the same, I’d really like to be the person he sees when he wakes up.” I bite my lip and look up at the man.

“You got it, there’s a small group of us in the waiting room. If anything happens, we're all right out there.” He smiles and walks out.

I pull up a chair and sit by Nitro’s bed just hoping that he still sees me the same way he did when we were stuck in that hell hole.

* * *

I blink my eyes a few times, I must have fallen asleep in the chair. I turn my head to check on Nitro and he is sitting up and looking at me.

“Oh my God! When did you wake up and why didn’t you wake me up!” I jump out of the chair and rush over to him.

“Sorry.” He says, but doesn’t take his eyes off my face. It’s like he doesn’t understand what I’m doing here. They were right he doesn’t want me.

“I guess your brothers know better.” I chuckle and move back a step.

“How so?” He asks still not taking his eyes off me.

“They told me that when you woke up there was a possibility that you wouldn’t want to be near me after all that we’ve been through. I had—“

“My brothers are stupid as fuck.” He says, “Why are you here?”

I laugh and shake my head confused. I’m hearing him, but he’s not changing his expression. “I’m here, because I want to be near you Nitro. I want to be with a man like you and even though our start is so much less than traditional I want to see if you really have what it takes to claim me like you say you could. Of course, if you don’t want to, I understand. Both of us come with a lot of baggage.”

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