Page 18 of Somewhere We Belong

“If you're still walking, maybe we need to go again,” Theo said in front of the table. “I might have to stretch first because I almost pulled a muscle yesterday.”

“I may be walking, but that doesn’t mean my ass doesn’t hurt,” I laughed while getting a mug to pour coffee in.

“Maybe we need to edge you for a few hours and see how that goes,” Colt said, as I smacked his ass.

I walked over to the table to see what Theo was doing. His big hands were typing on a laptop that looked way too small for him. By the way he was stabbing the keys, I was afraid they were going to break.

“Good morning,” I said, kissing his cheek.

“Mornin’,” he said, pulling me onto his lap and kissing the living daylights out of me. My stomach tensed in pleasure as he grabbed my ass, grinding me into him.

“I’ve missed this so much,” I said, leaning my forehead against his. “I’m glad I don’t have to go, I don't think I would have survived any longer.”

“Look at all you have accomplished,” he said. “I’m so proud of you.”

“Thanks,” I said, my cheeks growing red, kissing him once more before sitting in my own seat.

“Over medium, A?” Colt asked.

“Please,” I said, looking over Theo’s shoulder. “What's this?”

“It’s—”

A soft pounding was at the door.

“One of the goats?” I smiled excitedly to see what animal they had gotten since I had been gone.

Theo shook his head as he got up. Uneasiness hit me as I wondered who the hell would be here. I glanced at Colt to see if he knew, but he shook his head at me.

“Teddy Bear!” Crying came from the door, and I got up immediately.

“Sol,” Theo said as Nova’s little girl ran to him and hugged him.

She was crying gibberish, and I looked out the door for Nova.

“Sol, where is your mommy?” I asked, sliding into my tennis shoes.

“Mommy fell,” she cried. “She’s not waking up.”

I grabbed my keys, opened up the trunk and got my kit out.

“The Rhino!” Theo shouted.

I ran to the utility vehicle they had, and we took off. Sol was crying on Colt as he held her close. He murmured things to her and rubbed her back like a father would. If I had ovaries, they would be screaming at me to make this guy a dad. Colt was aggressive, mad at the world, and quick to anger on his best days, but right now, this little girl had him wrapped around her fingers. He was soft, kind and protective.

We abruptly stopped, pulling me from my daydream of Colt as a dad. Sol ran around the house as we followed her to see Nova lying on the ground on her stomach.

“Don’t move her,” I snapped, as Theo was about to turn her.

“We don’t know if she has a broken back or neck and I don’t want to cause any more damage,” I said, kneeling next to her checking to see if she was breathing. “Sol, what was your mommy doing?”

“Was she on the roof?” Colt growled.

I looked over my shoulder to glare at him when I noticed the ladder was on the floor along with a blue tarp.

“She said she needed to put it on the roof before it rained.” Sol pointed to the tarp.

Shit, she could have fallen off the roof and that was at least ten feet high. A number of things could be wrong with her, broken bones or worse a severe head injury. I lightly ran my hands over her back and legs, starting my assessment from there.

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