Page 8 of I Dated a Holiday Hero
“Hever, I thought you were good.”
“Yeah, well, it was good enough to get me home without barfing up a lung, so thanks for that.”
Her heart was pounding, and she gritted her teeth.
“Geez, Hever, you seem tense.”
“Yeah, you are swift as always, Torenne.” She leaned on the good doctor, and her mother came to the other side.
“Hello, Doctor. Perhaps a chair for her?”
Dr. Torenne nodded to one of the attendants, and Hever was put into her custody.
“I am still stuck to X-ray only, Doc. No magnetics.”
“Got it.”
“Don’t drive like a maniac, Torenne,” her mother muttered.
“No, Auntie. I will treat her like glass.”
Hever covered her face with one hand. Her mother didn’t approve of Torenne, and it had more to do with her hanging out with thugs and criminals than her activation.
As they headed to radiology, she knew that it was a one-sided thing. Torenne had a specific type, and Hever wasn’t anywhere near it. Torenne had just been endlessly accepting of the new family member. She had made Hever feel safe.
She got to X-ray and settled in for a full-body scan. It was the continuation of a very long day.
Chapter Two
Hever was hooked upto an IV when she woke up. Her mother was sitting next to her. “Why didn’t you tell me you had broken bones?”
“Torenne got most of them healed at the site. They blew my entryway up with me standing in it, Mom.”
“Shit. What did they want?”
“Just some repairs to a vehicle they were building to attack actives. It was very clumsy, and an active would have to stand in the middle of the road for that unit to be effective.”
