How About No (Bear Bottom Guardians MC 3)

Lina looked over at Castiel like he was a leper. “No way am I staying with you, death angel. Not after what you accused me of a week ago.”

I frowned, wondering what it was that they were speaking of.

“Alright,” a nurse came in. “You and you, leave. You, sit down so I can start. You, why are you even here?” that was directed at Castiel, who’d arrived somewhere in between the explanation from Albert. “You, go to the corner of the room and stop being such a big space taker.”

I did as I was told, and watched quietly as Lina donated a pint of blood for her sister.Chapter 21A large group of people is called a ‘no thanks.’

-Coffee Cup

Landry

“Funny, I don’t remember consenting to that!” I snarled.

It was a pitiful snarl, of course, but it was a snarl nonetheless.

“Funny, I don’t remember giving you a choice,” Lina retorted. “Now, shut up and enjoy my blood. I’m trying to sleep.”

Unfortunately for Lina and for me, after she’d donated the pint of blood, she’d gotten woozy and hadn’t been able to get up from the couch where she’d planted herself afterward. Every time she tried to get up, she became dizzy and so nauseous that she threw up. At least, that was what Castiel and Wade had informed me.

“Why are you so calm about this?” I finally growled. “You ruined my childhood, and you were going to casually give me half your liver like you weren’t the worst sister ever?”

“Me?” Lina asked. “I wasn’t the worst sister ever! You were! Would it have hurt you to come visit me every once in a while?”

I frowned at that. “What do you mean? You told me not to visit you. I especially remember that when we were older. In fact, the last time you told me to leave and never come back was before you graduated from high school. You screamed at me. Sister or not, you can’t come back from that.”

Lina got this funny look on her face. “I told you not to come back because you were giving me a pity visit. The only reason you came in there was because my mother asked you to bring me something. Would it have killed you to walk in there and say ‘hi’ when you weren’t asked to?”

I frowned. “Mom told me that you didn’t want me there.”

Lina laughed, and the laughter contained zero trace of humor. In fact, she sounded quite pissed.

“My mother is a dick wad,” Lina said.

“Why do you keep referring to her as your mother and not ‘our’ mother?” I finally asked. “You’ve decided to no longer allow me claim to her?”

I mean, technically, I didn’t really want all that much to do with her anyway, but still, she was all I had.

Not that it was a good thing to have most of the time. But it seemed to piss our mother off when I spoke of her as being related to me, so I was going to keep that and own it—just to piss her off more.

“Landry,” Wade said softly, bringing my gaze to his face. “I think it’s time we had a talk. Since you’re well enough to hold a twenty-five-minute never-ending argument, I think it’s time you hear what we have to say.”

I frowned.

Wade had been asking me if I was ‘alert’ all day long. If I could understand where I was, and what had happened.

All of those answers had apparently not been enough for him, which I hadn’t really cared about since I’d been so tired and weak. However, after getting some apple juice and some beef broth in me, I felt like a new woman.

A new woman that had her sister in her hospital room with her that also so happened to have apparently given me blood that had caused her to pass out and not move for hours.

I didn’t want her blood in me! I’d take anybody’s blood but hers!

The look on Wade’s face made me pause in concern.

He was looking at me like I wasn’t going to like what he had to say.

“Anyway, I’ve learned some interesting things over the past forty-nine and a half hours,” he started, causing Lina to snort in amusement.

I glowered at her before returning my gaze back to Wade’s face.

“And?” I said impatiently.

My side was starting to hurt with all this talking—as the nurse had said it would—but I didn’t stop myself. Only continued to stare at the man sitting in the chair beside my bed.

“And when I went to ask Lina if she’d be willing to donate half her liver—” I couldn’t let that go without a derisive snort. “She came straight here. Unfortunately, the doctor denied her because of her cancer background. Her mother, however, learned that she was here as well…” I groaned at his use of ‘her mother’ as Lina had been saying over the last hour. “And she came up here and confronted us.”