They were taken in separate ambulances, and Jayden remained calm—well, sort of—until he was taken into a ward off A&E and still couldn’t find Darren. His pleas for information started as polite requests and ended up in swearing at the doctor who came to put his shoulder back in.
“You’re not doing f*****g anything until I know my partner’s okay!” he snapped, and part of him knew it was completely irrational, but the majority just didn’t care. Darren had had blood in his hair and had been knocked out and…and…
But nobody would find Darren—or even someone who had been treating Darren—and one nurse had gotten annoyed with him because he couldn’t give her another emergency contact (because his emergency contact was Darren, for God’s sake!) and then his phone started going off in his pocket, an
