Page 160 of His Sunshine Baby

“Oh, my Goddess, Nora!”

Moon Goddess, how could she even stand like this! Her feet are covered in blood! Is that glass? Her white skin is cut in multiple places, it looks damn painful just by looking at it! But she acts as if she had only just realized it too, and keeps sniffling and sobbing the same, shaking her head.

“Danny, you think you can handle that?” I ask, looking at the injury. “Or do we take her to the hospital?”

Danny glances back a couple of times. I know this isn’t exactly his expertise, but his mom and sister are nurses, so…

“It should be okay,” he finally says, “but we need to disinfect it quickly.”

“My Goddess, Nora... What happened to you?”

She looks at me, and starts talking, but also crying a lot more.

“I… I thought there was something wrong with Damian, and… and Liam said there was this party… for the Black Corp, their… company… so I… I hid that I was going, and Liam took me there, and Bobo too, and…”

She starts crying a lot louder, breathing with difficulty. I pat her back, feeling as sad as her, trying to comfort her. She keeps trying to push her messy hair out of her face, with trembling hands and erratic moves.

“Damian was… there, with that woman, and they said she’s… his fiancée!”

What the actual fuck? Nora is his fated mate, isn’t she? He even made a whole ruckus about finding her for years, and now the King is getting engaged to someone else? What the hell is going on!

“That… that woman, King, she… she was acting like they were really close, and she was by his side, and Damian was okay with it, and… and he said it’s true… He’s… He’s engaged to her… Elena, I don’t get it! He said he loves me, but he doesn’t want me as his Luna… I don’t get it! She’s just… She was…”

But her words are lost in her crying, and it goes on for a while.

My gosh, poor Nora. How could he do that? The King is…

“Men are jerks.”

“Not helpful, Danny!” I growl at him.

Seriously, can he not make it about him for once? I take a deep breath, even though I’m probably as mad as he is atthe King for doing such a thing. Engaged to Alexandra King, of all people? The Gold Moon clan Alpha’s daughter? That woman is known to be a mythic bitch! She’s crazy rich and so full of herself, too, from what I’ve seen or heard of her. So that’s the shitty alliance Clark mentioned.

I take a deep breath. I need to calm down, Nora is already enough of a wreck as it is.

“Nora, I’m so sorry about what you went through tonight, really. But don’t worry, okay? Tonight you can stay at our place, have a good sleep, and calm down. And we can talk about it tomorrow when you feel better, okay?”

She nods weakly, her cheeks still soaked with tears.

“What is there to talk about? She needs to ditch the guy and basta–”

“Danny, park the damn car and shut up!”

It feels like a short ride back to our place, but Nora manages to calm down a little. Her feet worry me, though, her shoes literally turned red from all the blood. I wrapped her in the blanket meant for me, but she doesn’t look good. She’s whiter than usual, if possible, and the rain keeps her all cold and wet no matter how much Danny turns up the heat in the car.

By the time we get back to our apartment, she has somewhat calmed down, and I suspect all this crying has exhausted her. We get her to the couch, and Danny runs to get the first aid kit his mom gave us. I can’t even look at her feet, all this blood makes me so nauseous.

“How is it, Danny?” I ask without looking.

“Well, bleeding. I’m going to have to make sure she doesn’t have any glass left in her foot, but it should be okay. Not a good idea to run around with your feet in that state, sweetheart.”

“Sorry... I didn’t realize.”

While Daniel starts to look at her feet and do whatever he can with a frown on, I get up and head to the kitchen to get her something hot to drink.

“I would love a cappuccino too,” says Danny.

“I wasn’t asking you!”

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