“The mess being me, right?” I chuckle, but the sound is painful even to my own ears. I loosen my grasp to release his hands, but feel his grip tighten on me. I see the anguish in his eyes and want to laugh. What could be worse than finding out?—
“No.” I shake him off violently. “No, Blade, please don’t.”
“I’m so sorry, Delphi.”
“What?” Kruger snaps, but I don’t hear anything else because the darkness overtakes me completely as it twists and coils like a snake before consuming me whole.
Chapter Twenty-Four
KRUGER
I catchher as she falls, lowering her quickly to the ground as another seizure takes hold. Panic claws away inside of me at her having one so close to the last.
Everyone gathers around, almost protectively, as we wait for the worst of it to pass. When she settles down, I look up at Blade, whose face is pale.
“What was that at the end? What did she figure out that the rest of us missed?”
He lifts his gaze from Delphi to me. “That the babies could have been anyone’s, and Snake couldn’t have that. It would give him away.”
“What did he do?” I grit out, but I know, goddamn it.
“He gave her pills that would make her abort the babies.”
“That motherfucker!” I hear G snarl before something smashes
I look down at my girl and wonder how the fuck you come back from that, only to find her looking up at me. Tears track down the sides of her face as her body comes back online. Shemight not be able to speak or move, but her brain remembers. I wish like fuck she could forget.
After a few minutes, she takes a deep, shaky breath, and the room quiets once more, as if she’d screamed instead.
“It wasn’t a dream, was it? It was real.”
I dip my head and press my lips to her forehead, breathing her in, trying to figure out what to say. But what the fuck is there to say to this? I look up at the men around me, needing someone to tell me what the fuck to do.
Havoc is the first to move. He drags G with him, and both stand side by side as Circus and Capone do the same on the other side of us. Before I can comprehend what’s happening, I hear Delphi gasp as she takes them in. I look back up and feel a lump in my throat when I realize they’ve lined up on either side of us in solidarity.
“I’m going to sit you up, okay? Then I’m going to take you to the hospital to get you checked out.”
“I’m okay,” she answers like she always fucking does. Like she didn’t just have her life flipped upside down all over again.
“I’m getting you checked anyway. That’s two seizures, one right on top of the other.”
“It was just the shock I?—”
I press my forehead to hers. “Please, baby, just let me do this.”
“Okay,” she whispers as I ease her into a sitting position. I jump up when I know she’s not going to fall back and scoop her into my arms.
Blade steps up to us, smoothing her hair back from her face. “I didn’t want you to know. I fucked up. I know I did, but I couldn’t see a scenario where you wouldn’t get hurt.”
She reaches out and cups his cheek. “It was an impossible choice. You should have told me. But if it had been Legs, I can’t say I wouldn’t have done the same.”
He leans over and kisses her forehead.
“I can come home now, right? You won’t hate me anymore?”
He sniffs, his voice coming out choked when he replies. “I never hated you, Delphi. I hated myself.”
“I don’t want you to do that anymore.”
