Page 35 of Fractured
She sighed, “I don’t give a fuck anymore. I’ve bent over backwards to be nice to you. To do things for you. And this is how you repay me? All you had to do was ask me to wait, that you’d make time. But you didn’t do that. Now get the fuck out.”
“Sparkles,” I said.
“Get the fuck out!” she screamed.
Then a nurse came into the room and was eyeing me, “Sir, you need to leave.”
I crossed my arms over my chest, “No.”
She sighed, “If you don’t leave, I will be forced to call security in here.”
Talia’s voice shook, “Dom. Please. If I’ve ever meant anything to you, even a small sliver, get the fuck out.”
I took in her face, the set line of her jaw, the tense lips, the tears I could see forming in her eyes.
She didn’t know it, but she meant everything to me.
It was high time I started acting like it.
I went out to the waiting room and saw everyone there waiting.
I took a seat beside Garrick and sighed, “She wants everyone to go. You all hurt her with that text.”
Frank nodded, “Got that.”
Carter pinched the bridge of his nose, “When the fuck are we going to learn?”
Ethan sighed, “It’s gotta be hard being the baby of the family.”
Garrick nodded, “Told her we wouldn’t do it again, make her feel less than, and we did that.”
Alec shrugged, “That was payback. The last time I’m pulling it.
Misty snapped, “I told y’all to stop. Y’all didn’t listen to me.”
Then she headed to the hallway, no doubt to go find Talia, as did Harlee, Tatum, Lila, Cassie, and Everly.
Garrick sighed, “I’m on the couch tonight.”
I lifted a brow, “Why?”
“Tatum told me that she was tired of me not making time for Talia, and this was the last straw.” I nodded.
Carter nodded, “Harlee said the same thing.”
I crossed my arms over my chest and leaned back.
I was staying.
When the women didn’t return after half an hour, we all knew that Talia had let them stay with her.
Frank’s phone rang. He pulled it out and sighed, “Yes, my love.”
He was quiet as he listened, then he winced, “Fuck.”
“Yeah.” Then. “Okay.” Then. “Right.” Then he looked at me and said, “Looks like he’s staying.”
Then he hung up the phone and said, “Talia’s going to be fine. Just badly bruised.”
