and I got the call about there being an accident.
In a strange way, I was glad I didn’t know just how bad the situation really was from the brief call from Mack. The forty kilometre drive had been heartachingly painful enough, without knowing just how far down the car had wedged in the bore shaft or that Farron had tumbled out of the broken windscreen and plummeted down to the base.
Her foot had indeed broken from the impact of her fall, three metatarsals, the medial and lateral cuneiforms, and four toes. A bad break, but considering the circumstances of her fall, it could have easily been so much worse.
All in all, the rescue had not taken all that long. Between me, my brothers and Tim, Charlie and a few of the farmhands, as well as two tractors, we extricated the car quickly. Then we hooked up a winch, and I went down the shaft to secure Farron to my chest with a tree climbing harness Charlie had found in a shed, after that, it was a fast retrieval of the ladies by their men. By the grace of God, no one else had any injuries, just soreness from sitting on the hard ground and from the initial jarring impact of the car falling down the shaft.
“The first thing we do is deal with that bore shaft. We cover it up or tunnel down and see if there is water deeper underground. Either way, it gets a cover,” I demanded. I hated that Farron got hurt, that the girls had to go through such a scary experience, but my mind went to Daxx and Onyxx. Daxx was an adventurous little bugger, it could have easily happened to him. The outcome much worse.
Noxx growled, his eyes darkening with anger, and I knew he saw where my mind had gone.
“First thing in the morning it gets a cover no matter if we do decide to drill,” Noxx affirmed, pressing a kiss to Mack’s temple.
“Where the hell is Mallory?” Hendrixx grumbled, “I want to get Blake home, and Nixx needs to be alone with his fiancée.”
Soft gasps came from Blake and Makena, the two woman shifting in their men’s laps to face me.
“You are engaged?” They both gushed at the same time.
“Yeah, but we didn’t plan to tell anyone until Dillion heard it first, officially. So please don’t say anything till I give you the green light.”
“Of course,” Blake promised, “I am so happy for you, Nixx, Farron is perfect for you, for the family.”
“Congratulations Fenny, this is great news,” Makena exclaimed with unhidden delight, tears in her pretty eyes.
“Thanks, both of you. Best thing I ever did, even the year I spent stalking her, not acting on my feelings. I found my forever in Farron, and the best bonus being Dillion.”
A thought that I could have lost so much more if Farron was carrying my baby when she fell. What if my hell-bent mission to put my baby in her had worked, and she lost the baby from the fall. When we arrived at the hospital, the doctors asked Farron if there was a possibility she was pregnant, while she said no, I saw a flickering of doubt in her brown eyes. That was when I spoke up and asked for a pregnancy test to be done, Farron agreeing and requested a blood test rather than the usual pee test. The results weren’t in yet, but my fingers were crossed. She assured me she didn’t feel any kind of cramping, no blood on her knickers, so she was either not pregnant or the baby was still safe in his or her mother.
Before I could get myself worked up with hope that Farron was carrying my kid, Mallory walked in the room, Tim close behind her. Their relationship was different from mine and Farron’s, and indeed Hendrixx and Noxx with their wives. Where we were mushy and over the top, they were more reserved. No public displays of affection for those two, but something told me after tonight, Tim might just change that.
“Hey guys, sorry it took me so long. I wanted to go through all the papers and sort it out. Drawing out this day is not on my wish list.”
“So give us the condensed version and tomorrow we can have a more detailed meeting,” Noxx suggested calmly, but I knew better. This all began because of him and Makena and our father’s distrust of having her in our family. Noxx lost out