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“Yes, sir,” she answers, her voice scratchy and a dreamy smile on her face for a second before her eyes widen as she reaches up and grips my shirt in her hand. “The baby?”

I smile. “The baby is just fine, sweetheart.”

“I’m just going to give you two a little time,” Dr. Brewer says and Piper shakes her head, glancing over at her.

“No, wait… I wanted to thank you.”

Dr. Brewer’s eyes widen. “Why? You were in that situation because of me.”

“No, I wasn’t. But I knew what to do and how to handle Lillian in her fragile state because of you. You saved all of our lives.”

“Oh,” she whispers, tears welling up in her eyes.

“And there is something I wanted to ask you.”

Nodding, Dr. Brewer takes a step forward. “Okay…”

“Do you offer couples counseling?” Piper asks, looking up at me with a grin and I roll my eyes. Leave it to my wife to get shot at, kidnapped, and put in a coma for a day and half and still remember the promise I made her about counseling. Dr. Brewer glances between the two of us and nods.

“I do… but are you sure you wouldn’t prefer someone else?”

I shake my head. “Nah. Piper was right. This wasn’t your fault and honestly, you already know all about our past and you’re probably the best person to help us.”

“Okay, then,” she answers with a smile. “Call me when you’re feeling a little bit better and we’ll schedule something, okay?”

We agree and she tells us good-bye before stepping out of the room, leaving us alone. I turn to look at my wife, wishing I could pull her into my arms but I don’t want to hurt her and she is bruised everywhere.

“Lillian?” she asks with a sigh, looking up at me and I shake my head. Tears well up in her eyes and she nods. “Oh.”

“I’m sorry, baby. I know she was your friend before all of this happened but I can’t be sad that she’s dead. You’re my everything and I don’t know what I would have done if I had lost you.”

She nods. “I can’t believe I never saw it…”

“It sounds like she did a very good job of hiding how she really was,” I say and she nods with another heavy sigh.

“I know you’re right. I just wish I could have helped her.”

I flash her a grin and her eyebrows knit together as she stares up at me. “Well, look on the bright side, we can talk about it in therapy.”

“If I didn’t love you so much,” she growls, shaking her head and I laugh.

“Yeah, but you do and now… you’re stuck with me forever.”

Her green eyes meet mine again and fear flashes through her gaze for just a moment. My heart stalls. “You promise? Even with all the shit going on with the club?”

“Yeah, I do, baby. I know I’ve said this before but I’m not letting anything come between us and this time, I’m going to prove it to you - every single day, for the rest of our lives.”

She and I have a lot of work to do and I’m not under the impression that it will be easy but if I’ve learned anything in the past two months, it’s that my life is better with her in it and I will do whatever I have to do to make this work. Piper is my whole fucking world and I am never going back to the man I was before she walked into my life again.