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Nicole barely slept over the next few days. Every time someone walked into Sly’s room, she wanted to ask who they were and why they were there. If Zeke was able to make Sly sick, there had to be someone helping him. One of the nurses who’d been caring for her son.
But Nicole sounded like a crazy person. She couldn’t tell someone that. Not even Rocky. She wanted to trust he was there for the right reasons, and he genuinely looked shocked when she told him Sly was his son, but she didn’t know anything about him. For seven years, he’d been a ghost, a figment of her imagination. If it weren’t for her son, she wasn’t entirely sure she could bring Rocky’s image to her mind all those years.
She definitely never expected him to stick around, and that concerned her. Was he a part of Zeke’s pla
