Page 71 of Her Loving Hero

He relayed the information to Emily. She nodded and they both turned to look at Ben.

“Ben, you need to go and sit down,” Emily coaxed.

Ben turned on her, fire in his eyes. “I’m fine standing.” Emily flinched, and Wyatt was between his brother and his woman in a second.

“You need to take it down a notch.” He grabbed his brother by the arm and pushed him back down into the kitchen chair. “Now don’t get up again, you’re about ready to pass out. We don’t have time for that.”

Ben looked over at Emily and saw her pale expression. “I’m sorry,” he said sincerely.

“It’s fine.”

“No, it’s not. I’m just so damned worried.”

Emily smiled and patted his shoulder. “Wyatt will figure out what to do.”

“I came home to tell you two that I’ve got to be back to base and out of here in now,” Wyatt looked down at his watch, “three and a half hours.”

Emily sidled up next to him and looked at his watch. “And I’m leaving in seventeen minutes.”

With those words, Wyatt felt the band around his chest start to tighten again. He needed to say good-bye to Emily without Ben around. He also needed to figure out the shit with his two missing brothers, and he’d just dismantled the Batcave.

“Em, follow me,” he said abruptly, as he tugged her hand. She followed him into his bedroom, and he shut the door behind them.

“I’m so damn sorry about leaving you with all of this,” Wyatt said as he cupped Emily’s face.

Beautiful blue eyes looked up at him longingly. “We’re on the clock. Less apologizing, and more kissing.”

* * *

The door closedbehind Emily and Riya and Wyatt turned to look at his brother who was barely keeping it together. “So, what do you think has really happened Ben?”

“If they were okay, Luke or Kyle would have called me. I’ve called everyone I can think of, and nobody knows anything.”

“So, they’ve gone off the grid? Got it,” Wyatt said. “We’re bringing a buddy of mine into this.”

“You have to go, right?” Ben asked.

That was the question of the day. “I’m going to see what Kane can come up with. He’s in Virginia, because of the time zone differences, he’s flying out later than we are, so he has a little more time to work on this.”

“But he’s going wherever you’re going?”

Wyatt nodded.

“ETA?” Ben asked obliquely.

Wyatt shrugged.

“Fuck. And I’m pretty much useless. I can’t keep my shit together.”

Wyatt sat down across from his little brother and looked him in the eye. “We all want to be tough guys. But the truth is, these injuries knock you all to shit. I’ll deny it if you ever tell someone I told you this, but I felt fucking tired, dizzy and hormonal after my injury. What you’re experiencing is normal. And don’t think it will stop anytime soon.”

“Wonderful,” Ben said bitterly.

“You’re alive. So, let me call Kane, we’ll see what he turns up. But Benny, I need you to know something.”

“I’m here now. If I have to beg off this mission so I can help with Kyle and Luke, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

Ben slapped the heel of his hand against his eye. “If you make me cry, I’m going to fucking kill you.”