“I brought yoursfrom home.” Huck slid off the bed and pulled a bag from the closet. “There’salso a couple changes of clothes and your face shit.”
I made my way tohim, sliding my hands around his waist. “You’re the most amazing man on theplanet.”
“Bringing youclothes registers that high for you, huh?”
“And saving mefrom a homicidal psychopath.”
He gave me asqueeze. “Right. And that.”
“Okay, enough ofCyrus. I want to get into my own clothes, brush my teeth and crawl into bedwith you. Do you want to text Razor or shall I?”
“I’ll do it,”Huck said. “Tell me what you want.”
I fired off mylist as I rifled through the bag and pulled out a clean T-shirt and underwear,and then headed to the bathroom to brush my teeth.
Razor arrivedthirty minutes later with bags full of food, beer, ice cream and even dinnerfrom a local fast-food restaurant, then left us alone to reconnect in the bestway ever.
Junk food andthree of the Sharknados.
Daisy
TWO WEEKS LATER, we were home. Huck’s dadwas recovering well and would be back at work in less than three weeks. Huckhad talked to Ramona, his attorney, who had informed him Mack had given her acall and they’d come up with a plan if the Hurricanes didn’t do right by Huckafter the surgery.
His agent,Reggie Ecker, had reminded Huck that the contract had been one of the highestin the industry at just under a million for a rookie, so he was gettingpushback from the ‘team’ about their injury clause and exactly what that meantgoing forward and what they would have to honor.
That’s whereMack came into play. He’d decided that if the Hurricanes weren’t going to pay,the other team would, considering it was their player who’d attacked Huck andthere’d been no protections in place.
In the end, Huckdecided to let Mack and Ramona do the fighting since he had a tough surgeryahead, and we were getting used to being back to ‘normal.’
I was in thekitchen making dinner when Huck walked in with a bag of groceries. He’d been atthe club all afternoon and it was my first stretch assignment being alone.Well, alone in the condo, at least. One of the recruits was parked on thestreet in front of the building for protection, so I was never actually withoutcover.
“Hey, baby.”
I couldn’t stopmyself from jumping slightly and he frowned.
“Sorry, didn’tmean to scare you,” he said as he locked up and hit the buttons on the alarm.
“I’m okay.” Isighed. “I know I’m safe, I just have to remind my body of that fact.”
He made his wayto me, setting the bag on the island and pulling me in for a kiss. “What areyou making?”
“Pork chops.Sound good?”
“Sounds great.”
I reached up andran my finger gently over the bandage on his cheek. He leaned back with agrimace, and I sighed. We’d been back a week when Hatch decided it was time forHuck to ‘bleed,’ and Cash was ready and willing to jump him in.
I wanted nothingto do with it, so my girls came to hang out with me while the ‘ceremony’happened. Huck came home, bruised and cut, but patched up and I had managed tohold my complete meltdown until after Teagan, Cambry, and Huxley left.
“You should seeyour brother,” Huck had retorted as I grabbed ice from the freezer and tossedit into a baggy.
“Nothelping, Huckleberry.”
“Neither willthat, honey,” he said, opening the cabinet that held my liquor.
“Ice will helpwith the swelling.”
He held up abottle of tequila. “And this will help with the pain.”
