Page 71 of Cross Check My Heart
“I got there right after they both took a fall down the stairs.” Any remaining breath leaves my lungs, but she continues. “She’s mostly okay, but she’s a bit more banged up than the dude. He did take a good hit to the ground though.”
“Where is he?” I ask through clenched teeth. She tilts her head as she watches me with narrowed eyes.
“Something tells me it might be better if you don’t know that right now.”
Garrett laughs at that while I just blink back at her. She’s right. There’s all this pent-up anger at him for hurting Lilly, both physically and mentally, that all I can think about is punching him in the face.
“Thanks for heading over to check on her, Eva. We all really appreciate it.” Garrett says and she smiles kindly up at him.
“I’m just glad I was workin’! Speaking of which, I gotta get back. I told the guy covering me I would only be gone for a couple of hours. You’ll keep me updated?” Garrett nods and walks her to the elevator. Just as I’m thinking over a reason to goin and check on Lilly, the sound of her giggling and happy voice trails out the door.
“Dominicky is here!?” She squeals and is followed by Paige shushing her. Not that it stops Lilly from loudly singing out, “Dommy Nick!!”
“Better go quiet her down there, Dommy.” I glare at Garrett before sucking in a breath as I head into the room.
I head into the room with the suspicion that Lilly on pain medicine is not going to have as much of a filter in front of her dad as she should.
Sure enough, the moment Lilly sees me, she’s giggling and no-so-quietly whispers to Paige, “Isn’t he built like a god?”
For the first time in my adult life, I feel my face heat. I try to keep my focus on Lilly, but can feel her dad staring at me. Clearing my throat, I make my way over to the side of her hospital bed that Paige is on.
“How ya doin’, Lilly?”
From what I can see, her wrist is in a cast and just below the cuff of her hospital gown sleeves are the peaking’s of a bruise. It’s the small bruise forming on her cheek that has me clenching my jaw. Her nose scrunches up as she glares at me, causing a bit of the tension to leave my body.
“Excuse you, that’s not what you call me.”
My eyes widen as Paige shakes with laughter next to me. Stealing my nerve, I glance up at Coach who has a brow raised in question as he watches Lilly.
“And, what, exactly, does Dominik call you?” He questions and she lets out another one of those adorable giggles and smiles beautifully at me.
“Sunshine.” I’m almost ready to play it off as a platonic nickname, but she cuts me off and whisper-yells while leaning toward him. “And good girl.”
The room is quiet for a minute, only interrupted when Lilly talks again as she adjusts herself to lay back on the bed. Her gaze stays on me the entire time she gets comfortable.
“You’ll stay?” Just like that my shoulders drop, and I gently move past Paige to brush some hair out of her face.
“Yeah, Sunshine. I’ll be here, get some rest.”
She smiles lazily as she starts to drift off. Deciding to break the silence building up in the room, I glance at Paige and ask.
“I think they gave her too high of a dose.”
Paige just shakes her head, smiling at me before looking at Coach.
“I’m gonna go grab some coffee with Garrett since she’s finally resting.”
His stare leaves me long enough to smile and thank her, before locking back on me. Stepping closer to Lilly, I’m grateful for the obstacle between us. I don’t think he would get physical, but at the same time, he’s intimidating as hell. Deciding it might be better to wait for him to speak first, I stay silent.
“So…you’re seeing my daughter?”
The first thing I notice as I wake up, is how sore my body feels, as well as the weight of something on my thigh.
The second thing I notice is that I’m in a hospital.
Again.
I slowly peel my eyes open and begin studying the room when my gaze lands on the clock. My heart stalls when I see that it’s almost eleven. The last thing I remember is the nurse giving me some pain meds because they needed to set the broken bone in my wrist. Things start to get hazy around the time that I filled Paige in on everything that happened with Cam. She was fuming, but was almost hesitant to tell me that he was down the hall being treated.
