Surviving His Scars by Terri Anne Browning

Author:Terri Anne Browning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anna Henson

Chapter 13

Monroe

My entire body was one big ache. The kind of ache people have after being in a car accident, their muscles so tense that when they finally start to relax, every inch of their body throbs.

It started after the doctors came to tell us Daddy was going to be okay. They had gotten the bullet out of his thigh and repaired the damage another bullet had done to his shoulder. My body hurt so badly that Mom convinced me to take what the nurse offered so I could get some rest, she and Aunt Raven assuring me over and over again that it wouldn’t harm the baby.

With Mila cuddled up with me on the bed, Lyric sitting beside her, Maverick in a chair by the door, and one of the MC brothers right outside my hospital room, I’d given in when the medication started to make me drowsy, and I fell asleep curled up with my sister.

I didn’t know if it was from the medication or the events of the day, but my dreams felt oddly real.

When I first started to open my eyes, I felt like I was floating. There was a thunderous pounding under my ear that sounded like a racing heart. But the one thing that caught my attention and made me smile was the slight trace of Gian’s scent filling my nose.

Sighing contentedly, I buried my face deeper into the hard pillow, desperately trying to hold on to sleep while inhaling deeply to take in as much of my favorite smell as I possibly could. I liked this dream. Gian was with me. He was holding me, and even that annoying, floating sensation that made me feel nauseated and dizzy didn’t matter as long as his strong arms continued to protect me.

Slowly, other things tried to poke into my dream world. I heard Gian snarling something in Italian, felt a slight, chilly breeze brush over my bare skin, heard a car engine rev.

None of that bothered me.

It was when I felt Gian release me that I protested. He was no longer holding me, and I began to cry in my dream. “You left me,” I sobbed. “You left me, and you didn’t come back. I-I needed you.” I touched my abdomen, where the tech had shown me our baby thriving earlier. “We needed you. But you don’t want us.”

“Hush, precious,” he commanded in a pained voice. “I will never leave your side ever again.”

“Liar!” I screamed at him and shoved his hand away when he started to touch my face.

It was his heat that made me realize I wasn’t in a dream. I blinked, but it was dark in the back of the car we were in. Confused, I glanced around. There was a man in the driver’s seat, maneuvering the car like he was trying out for the Indianapolis 500, but it was so dark I couldn’t see more than his profile.

Gian sat beside me, his hands raised like he was trying to calm a wild animal.

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