I stare, perplexed at her, because I’ve done jack shit. There hasn’t been time.
“I don’t know what we would’ve done if you hadn’t sent your young man and his friends to help. Drew, too, of course.”
“I don’t understand.” My brows knit together.
“Oh. Oh.” A light bulb appears to go off in her mind. “I just assumed you sent them.”
“I would have if I’d been here. Oscar is more of a father to me than my father has ever been.”
“He adores you.” She squeezes my waist. “And given how you’ve all rallied round to help us, I can see why.”
“What exactly did my friends do?”
“Drew transferred Oscar here after your father ended his employment and we lost our medical coverage. Then your boyfriend turned up at my doorstep with Sawyer and Jackson. Kaiden rented us a house two miles from here so we could be closer to Oscar. He even arranged for the girls to go to a new school temporarily, and he put far too much money into my bank account.” Tears pool in her eyes. “Sawyer installed a new security system at the house, and Jackson came with me to purchase a new car because Oscar’s car has gone missing.”
“It looks like my brother and my friends have taken care of everything,” I say, hardly able to talk over the lump in my throat.
“They have, and I’m so grateful.” She glances at her husband with fresh tears in her eyes. “To spend every day here with him, knowing I have no other worries or concerns, is more than I could have hoped for. And it’s all thanks to you.”
I shake my head. “I did nothing.”
“Don’t you see that you did?” She presses a kiss to my cheek. “Those boys don’t have an allegiance to my husband. Most of them don’t even know him.” She looks me directly in the eye. “Their loyalty is to you. They did thisfor you.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
I leave Julie with her husband and slip out into the hallway. Drew and Kai have their heads bent together, and they’re conversing in low tones. I hate to break up the renewal of their bromance, but my heart is fit to burst, and I can’t contain it. Plonking myself down on Kai’s lap, I wrap one arm around his neck and drape my other arm around my brother, pulling them both into me. “Thank you for what you did for him.”
“You okay?” Kai asks, peering into my eyes.
“I’m okay. Sad, because I hate seeing him like that and I hate the thought he might not come out of his coma, or come out of it intact, but at least he’s still alive.”
“I called Rick while you were in there. One of his professors at Harvard is a neurologist. He’ll talk to him and see if he can recommend someone to come and give us a second opinion.”
I let go of my brother, wrapping both arms around Kai’s neck. “I fucking love you.” I dot kisses all over his face. “And you are so getting laid for this.”
“Ugh.” Drew scrubs his hands down his face. “I did not need to hear that.”
“Suck it up, D. At least you don’t have to listen to us doing the deed.” I shudder, remembering the nights I heard Jane’s screams all the way from my bedroom.
“Unless we get it on in the back seat.” Kai waggles his brows, and I snicker at the look of abject horror on my twin’s face.
“He’s joking.”
“Am I?”
“Gross.” Drew stands, clamping a hard hand down on Kai’s shoulder. “And just when I was starting to like you again, man.” He shakes his head.
“My cock makes your sister happy,” Kai unhelpfully supplies. “You should do a happy dance, dude.”
“If you mention your cock and my sister in the same sentence again, I will pound your ass into dust.”
Kai laughs, lifting me off him and placing my feet on the ground. He stands, circling his arm around my shoulder. “I’d love to see you try.”
“Kai’s a legend in the ring,” I admit. “And he has quite the rep on the underground scene, or so I’ve been told.”
“Who said that?” Kai asks as we walk toward the elevator.
“Xavier told me the night we went to the Grid.” A pang of sorrow jumps up and bites me in the ass at thoughts of my bestie. Former bestie? I don’t know.
