Light Me Up

SARA

Three days later,Theo was discharged from the hospital. The shot to his shoulder wasn’t as bad as it could have been, missing all the important things. The concussion had made him dizzy, but I counted our blessings.

I stood with Theo, in a wheelchair as per hospital orders and griping about it, as we waited by the doors for Sam to bring the truck around. When I looked up, the man who saved our lives appeared before my eyes. I’d learned his name was Colt, and he was the president of the Devil’s Rain MC.

“Hey, Sara. How you doing?” He asked, looking at the bruising on my neck.

“Better,” I smiled. “Uh, Colt, this is Theo. Theo, this is Colt. He’s the one who shot Billy.”

“Well, I should thank you for saving our lives.”

“No thanks needed. You guys provided me with a clever excuse to shoot that motherfucker.”

I laughed nervously, and Theo shook his head, but I saw the smirk on his face.

“How’d you even find him?”

“We might ride bikes, but we’ve got some of the best tech guys in the game. We knew that bitch Billy was alive and well, pulling one over on all of us.”

“Why did it take so long then? It’s been years.” Theo asked, his chest puffed out like a gorilla. I wondered that too, of course. But it didn’t really matter now. It was done.

Colt’s eyes narrowed on him for a moment but he shrugged.

“We might have had a hard time finding him at first. But we got here in the end, right?”

Theo grunted.

“Well, I guess I owe you a big thank-you,” I said, stepping up to Colt and offering my hand. He looked down at it with a raised brow. After a moment, he took it and raised it to his lips to give it a kiss.

“No thanks needed, Sara. I’m just sorry you had to go through all this.”

“Me too.”

“Theo, glad to see you on the mend. And, uh, next time you put an APB out for us, maybe make sure we don’t get a heads up about it first.”

“The fuck kind of organization do you run, man?”

Colt shrugged, but Theo laughed and they shook hands.

“Be safe on the road, man,” Theo said as Colt turned to walk away.

“Always.” He nodded, looking back.

And then he was gone.

Theo rose up from the chair, and grabbed my hand.

“You gonna be my nurse?”

“Maybe. Depends on what the doctor said about strenuous activity.”

“Three weeks,” he moaned. I laughed. In truth, all I wanted to do was curl up with Theo and take the longest cuddly nap of our lives.

“What do you think about me moving into your place after the construction is done?” He asked, surprising me.

“You want to move in with me?”

“Well we’re already living together, might as well make it official. And I love your little black house. It’s perfectly you.”

“It is, isn’t it?”

“So…?”

“Yes, of course. Will you help me replant the garden?”

He slapped my butt and then wrapped his good arm around me.

“You know it, baby. We’re going to make it better than ever.”

“Good, because I already have plans. It’s going to take a lot of work, so you better rest up now.”

“Well I plan on putting you to work in three weeks, so we can call it even.”

I laughed and turned to kiss his cheek.

“I love you, you know. I’m glad you pulled your head out of your ass and kissed me that day.”

“Yeah well, I love you too. And if I hadn’t, you would have kissed me.”

“I hardly think so.”

“I know so.”

“You’re so full of yourself. Not every woman wants you.”

“Most do. But the most important woman is right here, and she’s the only one I want.”

We stood there in the sunshine, bickering, laughing, sneaking kisses. And nothing had ever felt better.