#Fate by Cambria Hebert

Author:Cambria Hebert [Hebert, Cambria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07XM9CFJ4
Goodreads: 48199516
Publisher: Cambria Hebert Books, LLC
Published: 2019-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

32

Trent

* * *

“I don’t like it, frat boy.” Drew’s hoarse complaint made me pause while tugging the blankets around him.

“Like what?” I asked, ready to fix whatever it was.

Gently, his hand reached for mine, tugging it away from the blanket and into his lap. The pad of his thumb stroked over the inside of my palm, making tingles race over my scalp and down my spine.

“This,” he answered, showing me the unattractive state of my wrist, then turning my palm to show me the uncovered stitches. “You haven’t been taking care of yourself at all.”

“I’m fine.” I rebuked gently, unsuccessfully attempting to tug my hand away. His grip was weak, but refusing any kind of touch from him was beyond me. Especially since there were so many days when I wondered if I would ever be blessed with it again.

“You aren’t fine,” he argued. “That looks like dog meat. And these”—he pointed accusingly at the stitches—“look infected.”

I frowned, looking at the wounds once more. I guess it did look a little gnarly. “Don’t touch it,” I fussed, this time using more strength to pull away. “The last thing you need is any kind of infection.”

“But who cares if you have one?” He accused.

“Drew,” I said patiently.

“I get it.” His voice was gruff, but his eyes still latched onto the wounds. “But it’s enough now, T. I want that shit cleaned up. I don’t like seeing it. I don’t like knowing you’re hurt because of me.”

Making a light sound, I went to him, cupping the back of his neck and staring until his eyes met mine. “Nothing about any of this is your fault.”

“You reached through a fire for me, didn’t you?”

I sucked in a breath. “How’d you—” I realized. “Romeo,” I swore. What the fuck did he tell Drew?

“You crawled through wreckage not even the rescuers were willing to go through.”

“They were working on clearing a path,” I bitched. “You didn’t have time for that.”

“You assaulted people.”

“They should have stayed out of my way.”

“You reached through a fire for me, Trent,” he repeated.

Furrowing my brow a bit and tilting my head, I asked, “Did you think I wouldn’t?”

He made a strangled sound that made him wince with pain. Caressing the back of his neck, I leaned in to briefly kiss the corner of his mouth. “I would do a lot more than that for you.”

His hands were cool when they cupped my face, and the intensity of his sky-blue eyes gave me that butterfly sensation in my stomach. “They were horrible to you.”

My heart squeezed, I had to work to swallow. “It doesn’t matter.”

“Don’t.” His fingers tightened against my cheeks. “Don’t act like the hurt you feel is somehow unimportant.”

But nothing would change it. And keeping all of that shit away from Drew made me feel better, so why bring it up? Why let it make an already grim situation darker?

“I know what you’re doing,” Drew intoned, sighing. “You’re pulling—” His eyes strayed to something behind me. “Patrick,” he called, lifting his voice so it would carry out into the hall, but it cracked partway through the call.

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