Page 75 of Grumpy Sunshine

I nodded back, then maneuvered the motorcycle through the grass and debris until I got to the other side.

Once we got past that, it was a straight shot right to the hospital.

Instead of going to my usual spot, I drove right up to the entrance and parked off to the side near the bike rack.

Both of us got off and we headed inside at a fast walk.

Without a word, both of us took the stairs, and when we were about to split up I grabbed her hand and said, “See you later?”

Her smile was soft.“Yeah, see you later.”

I watched her walk away, heading up to Dru to ask where she was needed.

I, on the other hand, headed to the board to see where I was going first.

Tayla was standing there with a marker in her hand writing stuff out.

“You’re working on the suspect.”

I turned to her.“Suspect?”

“The man that caused that pile up is in OR three.Young man, twenty-one.Thought it would be the best thing ever to test his new Maserati and see how fast he could make it go.He lost control on the opposite side of seventy-five, then flew over the barriers and crashed into all those cars on the other side.Kid’s got a spleen laceration and that’s it.”She sighed.

I hated working on morons.

There were times that I had to fight the urge to add just a little too much sleeping agent and whoops, he doesn’t come back.

“I’ll get scrubbed in,” I grumbled.

Before I could do that, though, my phone rang for a second time that night.

I answered anyway, placing the phone to my ear as I headed to get scrubbed in.

“Webber, can’t talk very long…”

“You at the hospital?”he asked, sounding…fucked up.

“Yes,” I answered slowly.

“You happen to have a kid come in that caused a pile up?”

Cold started to slither through my body.

“Yes,” I answered quietly.

“Not sure how to tell you this but,” he hesitated.“He killed Laney and Tavi.”

My stomach dropped, and acid started to climb up the length of my esophagus.

“Are you sure?”I rasped.

My mind was just…blank.

“Very,” he said.“Laney got to the hospital.They were able to deliver the baby but…she was too fucked up.Her head was practically smooshed like a pancake.That car landed right on her car and smashed it.Tavi was crushed in the back seat.”

Laney was Audric’s—Detroit’s—old lady.

She’d been helping care for Tavi, Apollo’s son, since they’d gotten Tavi back from his piece of shit grandmother that’d had him for over two years, hiding him away from Apollo.

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