And with that, she fell asleep. Two days ago, when I’d woken up, I had dreams and plans that I wanted to achieve. Now I had a whole new set, and so long as they all involved her, I’d keep adjusting and adapting every day for the rest of my life.Chapter FourteenSadie“Baby, wake up,” Elijah said urgently, shaking me gently. “We’ve got to go.”
Blinking, I tried to shield my eyes from the lights in the ceiling. “What’s going on?”
“Sadie,” Dad called, making me jump when he spoke from the space behind me. “We’ve got to get you moving.”
“Moving where?”
Parker was in the room as well, taking the IV out of the back of my hand with a grim look on his face. Seeing me watching him, he flashed me a smile and then stuck a Band-Aid on the great honking hole he’d left in my hand.
“Elijah has what you need to keep the nausea away, and I’ve also given him some stuff for you to drink so that your glucose levels don’t drop. He’s going to get you a doctor as soon as you get to where you’re going, so don’t panic.”
Blinking at Parker, I muttered, “Panic? Why would I be panicking?”
Ignoring my question, he nodded at Elijah. “She’s good to go.”
Before anything else could be said, I was lifted out of bed with a thick blanket around me, and we were moving out of the room.
“Pass her to me,” a deep voice I couldn’t quite place said as we cleared the door to the room I’d been in. “He doesn’t know me, so if I carry out someone in a blanket, he’ll think nothing of it.”
All of the muscles in the chest under my cheek tightened, and then I was being passed over. Looking up, I saw Elijah’s brother Jesse’s face smiling down at me. “Hey, pretty girl. I’m your chariot for this part of the journey.”
I’d been raised with manners, so I immediately used them. “Thank you.”
Nodding at his brother, Jesse peeled off in the opposite direction that Dad was leading Elijah. “Now, don’t worry, you’re going to meet up with him. We just have to do something first.”
The blanket covering my head was lowered, and then dark hair fell over my eyes, scaring the shit out of me.
“It’s okay, honey,” Ronnie murmured. “We’re just giving you a new hairstyle for a while. Your hair’s so pretty that he’ll know it a mile away, so we need to change that.”
Then, the blanket was back over me again, and chunks of hair were arranged to spill over it before Jesse continued on his way. “See you later, Mom.”
“Am I not breaking your back?” I asked as he strode wherever it was he was going.
“As if,” he snorted, opening a door with his butt. “And I’ll prove it by carrying you down the stairs of this place.”
And he did—six floors of stairs, to be precise. I couldn’t even make it up two flights before I was out of breath, but he made it look like he was just taking a stroll.
Once we were outside, I was placed in the front seat of a vehicle, and then he was jogging around to the opposite side while I did my seatbelt up.
“Wanna tell me what’s going on?” I asked as he got into the car and turned the ignition.
I was so focused on him that I didn’t realize we were alone until a hand landed on my shoulder from the backseat, and Elijah said, “We’ll tell you once we’ve gotten far enough away from here.”
At least, I think that’s what he said. I was too busy screaming my arse off.It felt as if we’d been driving for days, and every so often, the tosser behind the wheel would start laughing again at my reaction to Elijah popping up in the back of the car.
“It’s not funny,” I pouted. “I could’ve gone into labor.”
That was apparently the wrong thing to say to Jesse. “What? Do you need to see a doctor? Hang on, I’ll pull over and check where the nearest one is on my phone.”
Looking over my shoulder, I pleaded with Elijah again, “Please can I swap places with you?”
This time, he took pity on me. “Jesse, she doesn’t need a doctor, but if you could pull over so she can get into the back with me and lie out, that’d be great.”
At some point, he’d lowered the seatbacks in the back so that he could stretch out, so there was ample space available if I kicked the bags in the trunk to the side. I’d slept a lot while I’d been in the hospital, but I still felt like I needed another twenty hours.
Doing as he was asked, but still looking at me worriedly, Jesse pulled over, and I climbed into the back beside Elijah, immediately snuggling in and using his chest as a pillow.