I rested the sole of my shoe against the wall and released a long breath.
“Why’d you bring the girl?” Benny asked.
“She was already with me,” I lied.
“Do you plan on taking her back to the university?”
I didn’t reply.
“Jesus,” he groaned, throwing his head back. “She can’t fucking stay at the mansion. Not with all of this going on.”
“I’m sure as hell not driving her back tonight.” I thrusted my finger toward the ground. “I’m staying here, in the city, until we figure this shit out.”
“One night.” Benny bared his teeth, his face reddening more. “She can stay for one night, but you make sure she bringsnothinginto the mansion. I don’t trust anyone right now.”
I nodded in gratitude. That was him allowing something our father never would. It was a favor to me that I appreciated because we hardly ever let anyone, especially someone I knew very little about, stay in the mansion.
If Blair had had anything to do with this, which I refused to believe, I’d just fucked over my entire family.
Blair had no one. She never worried about her phone, and I never found her being sneaky. Surely, she wasn’t involved. I’d never choose a Fawn who’d do something like that.
“Take her there now,” Benny said. “We’re still waiting on news from the surgeon. As soon as we get that, we’ll be busy for the rest of the night.”
“Got it.” I pushedoff the wall.
“And, Enzo?”
I turned my head to look at him.
“She stays in your wing,period. Lock her ass in there.”
Benny and Antonio followed me out at the same time my phone vibrated in my pocket. I pulled it out, seeing Brooks’s name on the screen, and I hit Ignore.
Seconds later, when we returned to the waiting room, I saw the TV headline.
“Shit.” I moved in closer to watch the TV.
The guys did the same as we listened to the reporter update the public that someone had tried to shoot the president. Like our father, he was also currently in surgery.
“Do you think the two are connected?” Antonio asked as we watched video footage of the president going down.
It looked like a shot to the shoulder.
“It’s real fucking suspicious,” Benny said before snapping his attention to me. “Take the girl, Natalia, and Gigi home.”
“I think not.” Mom shook her head. “I’m not leaving here. As soon as they’re finished with my husband’s surgery, I’m at his side. I’m already pissed they wouldn’t let me be in thereduringit. What was I going to do? Get in the way of someone handing the doctor a fucking scalpel?”
My mom could be a little hotheaded when it came to my father.
I noticed a sliver of a smile on Blair’s face at my mom’s response.
“Until then, I’m sitting in this waiting room.” She stubbornly crossed her arms.
Knowing her, I knew we’d have to drag her out. She’d kick and scream, and then when she got home, she would figure out a way to come back here.
Nothing could make her leave my father right now.
Benny gestured toward Natalia and Gigi while looking at Antonio. “Get at least two of your men here to watch them. I want every entrance and exit secure in this place. Have Julian do a run-through of every person working on shift at this hospital.”
