I hated even more that she couldn’t remember anything that had happened in the moments before she’d driven off the road on the mountain.
I’d thought about paying Travis Dorsey another visit, but the possibility that he’d had something to do with Cassie’s accident clanged wrong in my brain. Dorsey was a loser, not a criminal mastermind. He wasn’t smart enough to be in deep with the Russian who’d hired him to run Cassie’s parents off the road.
And he definitely wasn’t smart enough to be involved with the people who’d wired millions of dollars through Kensington Trust, the private bank Cassie’s parents had been investigating when they’d been killed.
“You good, man?” Harvey asked, his mouth full of strawberry donut.
I shook myself loose from the questions surrounding Cassie’s accident. “All good. See you around.”
I wanted to take advantage of the time when Bram was out of Cassie’s room.
I headed down the hall with a knot in my stomach. Cassie was going home tomorrow.
With Bram.
Hawk and Vigo were in Cassie’s room when I got there, Hawk in the chair next to Cassie’s bed while Vigo sat on the mattress, painting Cassie’s nails bright green.
She was as beautiful as ever in her hospital gown, her copper hair pulled into a ponytail, her face bare of makeup. I’d gotten used to seeing the bandage on her forehead, the cast on her arm, but that didn’t mean I liked it.
An episode ofGrey’s Anatomyplayed on the TV, the volume low.
“Morning.” I’d gotten used to announcing myself as soon as I entered the room, had gotten used to announcing a lot of things since Cassie couldn’t see anything for herself.
“Thank god,” Hawk said when he spotted the coffees. “The coffee here sucks ass.”
“I stopped by the shop,” I said. “Figured I’d check on Kaylee and Drew.”
I gave the update for Cassie, but she was staring into space with the blank expression that had started to freak me out. Not because there was anything wrong with being blind — lots of people were blind and lived full, fulfilling lives — but because it seemed like all her vibrancy had been left at the bottom of the ravine where Hawk and Vigo had found her in the mangled Subaru.
“Keep still while those dry, mouse.” Vigo said, dropping Cassie’s hand and crossing the room to get one of the coffees. “Are Kaylee and Drew keeping things running for our girl?"
This was something we did a lot now: had conversations with each other that were actually meant to impart information to Cassie. She didn’t seem interested in much of anything, but we soldiered on, trying to stay cheerful, trying to keep her posted about the shop even though she didn’t seem to give two shits about it anymore.
“Everything looked good,” I said, taking one of the coffees to Cassie. I lifted her good hand off the bed and wrapped it around the paper cup, careful not to smudge the nail polish Vigo had applied. “Here you go. Can’t have you drinking shitty coffee. Kaylee said to tell you she misses you like crazy, but not to worry because she ran payroll and she hasn’t bankrupted you yet.”
“Thank you,” she said.
I kissed her temple. “You’re welcome. I was going to stop for breakfast burritos but I couldn’t wait to see you. Figured I’d send one of these other losers out instead.”
We’d been taking turns at the hospital, making sure Cassie was never alone. It meant ducking out when Bram was there, but that was better than letting Cassie be alone.
“You missed Bram,” Vigo said, wrapping a spare hospital gown around his clothes.
“I saw. He was getting in the elevator when I got here.” I hesitated. “Dawn said you’re going home tomorrow, Cass.”
She blinked, but her beautiful green eyes held none of their familiar shine. “I know.”
“Bram says he’s taking her back to the loft,” Vigo said, playing with the ties to a hospital gown he’d wrapped around his body.
It was a good thing he had clothes on, because the gown was meant for someone a lot smaller.
It didn’t cover much.
“Over my dead body,” Hawk muttered.
He’d barely uttered the words when the door opened and Bram stepped into the room holding a giant plastic cup with a lid.
“Quite possibly,” Vigo said.
