Page 20 of Dangers of Love

As Cain left, I turned to follow, but Eoin’s grip on my hand tightened. “Stay.”

“Mr. McCrae.”

“You can talk in front of her,” he said to the doctor.

“All right.” The doctor ignored me and went straight to the facts. “The initial x-rays didn’t show any fractures, but I’m still waiting for the results of the CT scan.”

“If nothing’s broken, I can go, right?” Eoin asked. “I mean, the CT is just an extra precaution.”

“No,” the doctor said, looking annoyed enough that I wondered if Eoin had been giving her a hard time. “It isnotjust a precaution. You broke a window with your head, and while I don’t doubt you have a very hard head, bone versus glass isn’t a competition you want to risk losing.”

“You didwhatwith your head?” It was my turn to hold his hand tighter.

He shrugged. “I’ll have a headache and probably a bruise, but it’s far from the worst thing that’s happened to me.”

I studied him for a moment. “This can go one of two ways. You can stay and wait for the results, or I can call someone in your family and have them tell you to not be an idiot. I have plenty of people to choose from.”

He scowled, but there wasn’t any real animosity in his expression. “All right. I’ll stay, but if the CT’s clear, I want to leave.”

“Fine.” With that, the doctor left the two of us alone, the expression on her face clearly saying that she was glad he would be my problem soon.

“I have to ask,” Eoin said, “how did you know I was here? I’m glad you are, don’t get me wrong, but I was surprised to see you come in with Cain. Did he call you?”

“I called him,” I explained. “Just logical.”

“Why was it logical?” A strange expression crossed his face.

“Well, you’d said you would be gone on a job for a while, and I heard male voices in the background during our call, so I figured you were together.”

Now he just looked confused, and a warning bell went off in my head. Something was off.

“Eoin, you texted me about having a job. We were talking on the phone.”

“I did? We were?”

I could barely ask the question. “Are-are you…are you having memory issues?”

He sighed. “I don’t remember the accident…or some before that.”

My stomach twisted. “How much is missing?”

“The last thing I remember is talking to you last night.”

Which meant he didn’t remember me calling to tell him I was probably pregnant.

Shit.

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Eoin

“The last thingI remember is talking to you last night.” I shook my head. “It’s weird. I didn’t even realize something was wrong with my memory right away. I mean, it was daylight, and I was sitting on a sidewalk, but my brain didn’t even register that my most recent memory had been at night and in my hotel room.”

“What did the doctor say?”

Aline’s voice sounded strange, but when I looked at her, she seemed fine. Maybe it was just the shock of first finding out I’d been in an accident and then learning that I’d lost some time. It wasn’t like this was a normal, everyday occurrence. Then again, considering how we’d met,normaldidn’t really apply to us.

“That’d be another reason she wanted a CT scan,” I admitted. “I have a concussion so–”

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