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I pulled out my cell and looked at the screen. Our group chat had a new message.
Wyn
you at the hospital yet?
My fingers flew across the screen.
Me
Hadley and Declan just picked me up.
Hadley’s phone buzzed in the front seat.
“I’m texting Wyn and Poet,” I explained.
“Ah,” Hadley said.
“Poet,” Bowman said. “She mentioned Poet should’ve been maid of honor?”
I glared at him.
He grinned.
“You guys really got to talk, huh?” Hadley asked. “If you already know who Poet is.”
“Not that much,” I lied again.
“I love Poet,” Hadley said. “But Salem’s my twin. No one else was ever going to be my maid of honor.”
More like Maid of Dishonor.
I’d slept with the best man.
To be fair, I hadn’t known he was the best man when I went to bed with him.
But if I admitted it to myself, I still would’ve found a way to go to bed with him even if I’d known.
And damn if he didn’t look at me like he knew what I was thinking.
CHAPTER FOUR
The Hospital
“Oh, sugar.” Muddy wrapped her arms around me and held me tight.
I closed my eyes and sank into my grandmother’s embrace. Despite being nearly seventy, the woman was strong—physically, emotionally—and at the moment, I desperately needed a shot of her fortitude. Her long silver braid fell over one shoulder and she smelled like baked apples.
“Any change?” I asked when I pulled back.
Muddy shook her head. “You want to go in and see him?”
No.
“Yes,” I lied.
The hospital smelled like nothing. Sterile.
“Who are you?” Muddy asked, dropping her arms and looking over my shoulder at Bowman.
