Page 112 of His North Star
Tears streaked down her cheeks. “I should go.” She nodded uncontrollably. “Yeah, I need to go.”
“We didn’t mean to hurt you,” I whispered. “Truly.”
Ty’s pained, raw voice echoed my own. “I’m sorry, Lys. I really am.”
She stumbled out of the room. My heart squeezed in pain. We didn’t mean to hurt her. We both had some growing to do and mistakes to learn from. I hoped she would find happiness.
“Care to explain anything?” Ty asked, perplexed.
I glanced at the nurse, who took her time on the computer, and shook my head minutely. “Later,” I mouthed.
His lips pulled into a tight line.
Hurry up, woman!I was here to be bold. To tell Ty I wanted him. And only him. The nurse’s casual, slower-than-honey-in-a-blizzard movements messed everything up.
“Thank you for coming in here to check on him,” I said to the nurse. “How much longer will his evaluation take?”
“A few minutes,” she replied, all too innocently.
I turned back to Ty. “When did you wake up?”
“An hour or so ago.”
“Does it hurt to talk? I have a lot of questions, but I can wait if it’s too much.”
He shook his head. “Everything else hurts, except that.”
I nodded. His eyes were red, as if the last few days of sleeping had done nothing to help him heal. I brought his hand up to my mouth gently, so as not to hurt him, and set my lips on his palm. I kissed his hand again. And again. My stomach flipped in excitement. His eyes widened as he sucked in a rattled breath.
“I’m sorry to interrupt,” the nurse said, “but can you step back for a minute?”
Now she was ready? I rolled my eyes, moving away from the bed. As my gaze stayed fixed on Ty, a warm tingling ran down my spine.
An eternity later, the nurse said she’d given him more pain meds, and he’d likely be asleep soon.
“Thank you,” I said.
Finally, she left the room. When the door clicked shut, I crossed back to Ty’s side in an instant.
“She took forever to leave,” I huffed.
“Care to tell me how we got engaged?”
I gulped and swept my hands down my thighs. “I said I was your fiancée so they’d let me see you when the ambulance arrived. I meant to set everyone straight earlier, but there hasn’t been time.”
“Well, you can work on it now.”
I scrunched my nose. “Do I have to? What’s the harm when we’re officially dating now anyway?”
His eyes widened. “We are?”
“That’s what I’ve been wanting to tell you since the night we got home from Glacier. I choose us.I wanted to surprise you. I had a whole night planned and everything, but you ended up here instead. I shouldn’t have waited. I want to date you, too, Ty. I love you.”
He looked out the window and sighed. “I’m glad we’re on the same page. I really am. But as you can see, my life is a little complicated at the moment. Between my broken body, what just happened with Lys, and the presentation I’ll obviously miss at The Peaks Lodge tomorrow, I don’t have the head space to deal with us just yet.”
Oof, that hurt to hear.
He tapped my wrist. “I really need my friend right now.”
