Until Sadie: Happily Ever Alpha World by Sarah Curtis & Boom Factory Publishing

Author:Sarah Curtis & Boom Factory Publishing [Curtis, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boom Factory Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Dean

Dean stormed the corridors, searching for Sadie. Everything had taken longer than he thought it would, and that put him on edge.

After his CT scan, which revealed no head trauma, a plastic surgeon had been called to stitch up his wound. He didn’t give a shit how it healed—what was one more scar? But try and explain that to anyone. So there he sat and waited. Then waited some more to be discharged.

She’d said she wouldn’t leave without him.

He needed to believe that was true.

He reached the nurses’ station, but Sadie wasn’t there. The blonde behind the counter looked up from her task, and reading the fierce expression on his face correctly, answered before he could ask. “She’s in with a patient.”

He hadn’t realized how rigid he’d been holding himself until he felt his body relax.

She hadn’t left.

He forced a smile his ass was too tired to feel. “Tell Sadie I’m in the waiting room when she’s ready to leave.”

The nurse smiled—hers didn’t seem forced. “Sure thing.”

He pushed through the double doors that separated the patient area of the ER from the main entrance and scanned the room, finding an empty patch of seats in a far corner. He sat, pulled out his phone, and checked the time. It was three a.m. in Tennessee. He hesitated, his thumb hovering over Cobi’s name for a full thirty seconds before he thought fuck it and tapped the screen.

It rang four times. Dean was just thinking he would need to leave a message when Cobi answered—well, sort of. “Hmm?”

“Sorry, did I wake you?” A smile pulled at his lips. He knew he had.

A rustle of fabric and some nondescript noises filled his ear before Cobi replied, “What the fuck time is it?”

“O-dark-hundred.”

“Hrmph.”

Dean heard water running and a moment later, the flush of a toilet. “Bro, did you just take a piss while on the phone with me?”

The noise of a door clicking shut followed by an exhalation of air had Dean picturing Cobi flopping down on the couch. “You wake me up, that’s the consequence.”

Now that Cobi sounded slightly awake, Dean got to the purpose of the call. “Sadie knows.”

“Fuck. How’d she take it?”

“Better than I thought she would. Not as well as I’d hoped.”

Cobi snorted in his ear. “Hoped she’d be so relieved you’re not a drug dealer, she’d rush into your arms and smother you with kisses?”

It was Dean’s turn to snort. “Maybe not quite that dramatic, but yeah, something like that.”

“Give her time. It’s a lot to take in. How’d she find out? Did your case finally close?”

“My case closed, and she found out when I showed up at the hospital in an ambulance.”

“Whoa, wait a minute, you were hurt? I think you need to start this story from the beginning.”

He did, filling Cobi in, leaving out the boring bits—like the CT scan and plastic surgeon. “Now, other than taking her home and locking her in my bedroom until she forgives me, I’m not sure what to do.”

“That’s not a bad idea.

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