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The female doctor looks uneasy as she looks at me and I want to smile about it. It isn’t very often that I’m the intimidating one. Lucian has that covered for the both of us.
Thinking of Lucian gets me even more frustrated but in a different way. We have got to get this relationship on the up and up if we have a chance.
Focus!
“Sir, we don’t allow guns in here,” the male doctor informs me.
Fuck! I forgot I had my piece on me.
“Tell me what’s going on with my brother. Stop fucking around!”
“The drugs got into his stomach lining and managed to travel through his blood stream. He has had several seizures and a stroke over the past couple of days. His body can’t handle what’s going on. We had to put him in a coma in hopes of his body getting the rest.”
My head feels heavy and I feel like my feet are stuck in cement. “What does that mean for him?” I’m asking a question that I need to know but don’t want to know the answer to.
“It is just a waiting game right now. We are doing everything we can to make him as comfortable as possible. Mason, I would see him now before it is too late.”
My blood boils in my body. I’m so fucking pissed off right now that I could cut someone. This is some bull shit. How did this happen? Why would Paul allow himself to be a mule like this? Sure, he doesn’t have a lot of money to support his drug habits, but this is a lot of work. A lot of effort. And a lot of work and effort isn’t something Paul would do. Even for drugs.
I walk into the room and see my friend’s body on the gurney. He already looks dead and it kills me. The drugs have turned his skin to gray and the machines are breathing for him. I look over his body to see any signs of life. There aren’t any. His body looks skinnier.
“Paul,” I say in a form of greeting as I walk closer to his bed. “Come on, man. You have to wake up. This shit isn’t funny.”
I sit in front of him in a chair as I wait for him to miraculously wake up. I know in the back of my mind something like that doesn’t happen, but a man can dream. This is the guy who got me in trouble and this is the guy that introduced me to Lucian.
Everything that has happened in my life has been because of him. The good and the bad.
My phone vibrates in my pocket successfully bringing me out of my melancholy thoughts. I can’t believe Paul’s in here. That’s just fucking crazy. The worst part, we don’t even know what type of drugs he ingested.
I’m about to leave when my phone vibrates again. It is just another sign and realization that my life no longer belongs to me. Everything I do or don’t do is chosen by Lucian.
I should hate it. I don’t, though. Whenever that woman looks at me with those fiery eyes, I want to pull her into me and make her mine. I know she won’t do it now. I’m hoping after all of this shit, she will.
My phone vibrates again and again. This time someone is calling me. What the fuck?
“Hello?” I chirp into the phone without checking the caller identification. I’m the worst kingpin in the world.
“Mason! You need to get out of there right now. It’s a trap!” Lucian’s hurried voice filters through the line.
I instantly become more alert. Keeping Lucian on the phone, I begin to check everywhere someone would be hiding. I check the bathroom, shower, behind the bed. Everywhere someone would be able to hide, I check it.
“What are you talking about?”
“You need to leave right now! It is definitely a fucking trap!”
She hangs up on me before I could ask her why she has come up with this conclusion. This isn’t something new I’m seeing with her. Ever since we have been together, she says what needs to be said and then she’s off the phone.
“Sir?” I hear behind me. “The valet wants you to come out and talk to them about your car. They want to let you know where they are parking it.”
I turn to look at the nurse in front of me. She’s a pretty girl with hair piled on the top of her head. She’s no Lucian, that’s for sure.
Without even thinking about it, I turn to look at Paul one last time and walk out of the room. I can’t have Lucian’s car being towed.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Lucian
My anger has reached an all-time high and I’m feeling murderous. That fucker got the one over on me and my gang. That jackass attacked Katie. He has to know that now I’m coming for him. Now he’s going to have to pay.
