Maverick
Lily lost her battle with sleep, and I refused to wake her when the doctor came in to examine me. “You’re gonna need to work around her,” I whispered. “I’m not moving her.”
Hawk and Payton had taken the kids down to get something to eat while my parents stayed behind. When the doctor left, I glanced over at my mom. “Can you hit that pain pump for me, please?”
Mom rushed to help, stroking my cheek. “Do you need me to call the doctor back in?”
“I’m good, Mama,” I assured her.
“If anything happened to you...”
“I’m good, Mom. I wasn’t about to leave any of you.” I focused on my dad. “What happened to Brick?”
Dad crossed his arms and whispered, “DOA.”
I relaxed. “Good.”
“Don’t like that he got a shot off,” Dad said.
“He didn’t shoot me,” I said. “Jenny did.”
“That b***h,” M
