Creatures in the Night by M.E. Clayton

Author:M.E. Clayton [Clayton, M.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Noah~

I raced into Donza Medical, Declan hot on my heels, my heart racing a mile a minute, my mind still trying to process what I’d been told. As we’d been leaving the meeting with the Sartoris and Kotovs, I’d gotten a call about Shea and Craig being shot outside the hospital, and it’d been the longest two hours of my fucking life as we’d driven back to town as fast as humanly possible.

Now, while the hospital staff had been made aware of the fact that Shea was my wife after we had canvassed the area last week, Shea hadn’t put me on any of her emergency contact information, so while they had called her parents, they had also called Lochlan since he was in the physician’s directory. So, Lochlan had been the one that had called me, and while her parents should have also called me, I understood their priority as her parents.

Luckily for my mental health, Lochlan had been able to get to the hospital within minutes, and he’d been good about giving me continuous updates during the two hours that I’d been trying to get to Shea. Knowing better than to argue with Lochlan Murphy, the attending physician had allowed Lochlan into the operating room, and that’s where Lochlan had learned that Shea had been shot in the arm and that a bullet had grazed the left side of her skull.

Lochlan had also informed me that Craig was also being operated on for multiple gunshot wounds, and that simple fact was the only thing that was keeping him alive right now. Of course, with Lochlan refusing to leave Shea’s side until I could get to her, we didn’t really know too much about Craig’s situation, but Craig was replaceable whereas Shea wasn’t. In only a matter of a week, my wife had become a vital part of me, so she wasn’t replaceable in the least.

Armed with everything that I needed to know, Declan and I bypassed the nurses’ station, then headed straight to Shea’s room. Now, whether because she worked here or because she was a Murphy, the hospital had made her a priority, and Lochlan had texted me that the bullet had gone straight through, so it been only a matter of patching her up, which they’d done immediately.

When we finally reached her room, Lochlan was standing outside the door, and the look on his face had me ready to lose my shit. He looked too serious for my liking, but his newest sister-in-law had also just been shot, so he could just be upset like we’d all be in the same situation.

“Calm down,” he said as soon as I was standing in front of him. “She’s going to be okay.”

“How in da feck did this happen?” Declan hissed.

“We’re still trying to figure that out,” Lochlan answered. “Craig is still in surgery, so we can’t ask him anything yet.”

“What about Shea?” I asked.

“She says that she doesn’t remember anything, though that could be from the anesthesia,” he said.

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