Dark Guardian (Black Hoods MC #3) - Avelyn Paige Page 0,53
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“Lindsey?” I ask, turning my attention to Grace.
Her mouth turns down. “She was pregnant.” It’s no less of a shock now as it was when Karma had said it to Henry Tucker earlier.
“You said was. Is the baby okay?”
A tear falls from her eye and down her cheek. “She lost the baby.”
“Is Lindsey going to live?” I ask her, my teeth clenched as the doctor starts in with the sutures.
“Sir,” he admonishes. “If you don’t stay still, you’re going to be in here even longer when I accidentally punch this needle through your eye. Stop moving!”
Grace and I both ignore him. “Yes, Eugene, Lindsey is going to survive, but the bullet destroyed her womb. She not only lost her baby, but she’ll never be able to have another one. She’s devastated.”
Devastated, I can deal with. At least she’s alive to be devastated.
“And Karma?”
“We don’t know yet. He’s in surgery.”
“Is he going to make it?” I demand.
Another tear slides down her cheek. “We just don’t know. If you’re the praying kind, though, this is the time to do it.”
I gape at her in shock. Karma is one of my best buddies. He’s a good shit. Reliable. Funny. Always ready to help out with a slap for Twat Knot when he’s being an ass. I don’t think I can handle life without him in it.
“Kevin and Natalie are out in the hall,” she continues, dashing away her tears and forcing a shaky smile onto her lips. “They were so brave, Eugene. You should be proud of them. And Kevin…” She takes a deep breath and blows it out slowly. “Kevin saved my life. He saved all of us.”
“You almost done, Doc?” I feel like I’m about to crawl out of my bruised and battered skin. I just want to see my kids, reassure myself that they’re really okay. I want to go to Lindsey and hold her, tell her everything is going to be okay. I want to get the hell out of here so I can be there when Karma comes out of surgery.
“Yeah, yeah, Rambo, keep your chaps on.”
Grace stares at me with wide eyes, stifling a laugh behind her hand. Gazing up at the doc, I raise my brow. “You’re a brave man, Doc.”
He shakes his head. “Nah. I’m just tired of people bitching at me to move faster when I’m doing my damn job.”
I’m in no mood for his annoyance, so I open my mouth to tell him exactly what I think about him and his damn job, but Grace beats me to it.
“He’s sorry, Doctor. We’ve just had a very rough night, and some of the others that were with us are hurt badly.”
Grabbing a pair of odd-looking scissors, he brings them to my head, cuts the thread, and winds some gauze around my noggin over and over again. “There. All done.”
I hop down off the table and follow Grace to the door.
“If you feel nauseous at all, you get your butt back in here,” the doctor calls out as we round the corner.
Kevin and Natalie are right outside, just as Grace had said. I don’t know which one of them hugs me tighter, but I don’t even care. My arms wrap around those kids and I hold them against my fractured chest, ignoring the pain and just reveling in the fact that my kids are here, and that I still have them with me.
“I was so scared,” Natalie sobs into my blood-stained shirt.
“Me too, kiddo. Me too.”
She looks up at me, surprised. “You were scared?”
“Terrified. I thought he was going to hurt us and take you guys away. I thought he was going to hurt you both.”
Kevin’s eyes flash with anger. “He hurt Karma and Lindsey.”
Swallowing hard, I follow Grace as she leads us all down a long corridor. “I know, but that’s all he was able to do.” I reach over and place my hand on Kevin’s shoulder as we walk. “You did good, bud. So fucking good.”
“I didn’t save Karma and Lindsey, or their baby,” he mumbles.
Their baby? Lindsey’s baby was Karma’s? I knew he had a thing for her, but he’d never once come to me and told me he was going to pursue it. Probably because he knew I’d rip his fucking dick off.
“You were amazing,” Grace assures him.
We enter the waiting area on the third floor of the hospital a few moments later, where leather clad bikers are sprawled out around the room. Some are asleep, and some are awake, mumbling