Chapter 36

LEIGH-ARI

The flight was indeed as long as Lorr had claimed. After our little make-out, I had retreated into the ensuite and freshened up. Raquel placed a neat blue jumpsuit on the bed for me and a pair of flat sandals. I was surprised that she managed to whisk the good stuff in that amount of time.

The events of the morning caught up with me and fatigue slowly crippled me. A pang of headache had me clutching my head after I lost a footing:

“M’lady,” Raquel called out as she supported me and slowly led me to the bed where she gently placed me. I didn’t have to ask, but it’s been a long time since I had my meds, and I even missed the doctor’s appointment. No wonder why the headache was this extra.

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“I am okay.” I smiled softly trying to reassure her that everything was well. But I really didn’t feel well. It felt like someone was banging my head against the hard metal, loud bells clung in my head violently and the more I laid there, the more the pain grew more unbearable.

Raquel left the room and after a few seconds, the twins came flying with eyes snapped wide open and both crawled on either of my sides. Lorenzo picked my head and gently placed it in his lap, then rubbed the sides of my head gently. Verzi took my hand and massaged it gently also. I was still very much awake, and I could hear everything around me, but my body was failing me.

“She needs her meds,” Lorenzo announced and there was a loud shuffling in the background. Their concerned looks soothed me to a greater extends because it showed that I wasn’t alone.

“Here. This should help with the headache and the pain.” One unfamiliar voice called out and the weight on my right shifted.

Verzi asked as he sought

Another pair of hands joined

an extent that I found it funny. They stole my life from my hands,

then come back to

LORENZO POV

the shot and I was glad she wasn’t suffering any longer. I hated it when she was in pain, and knew that I couldn’t take it from her. When I budged into that room and found her limp, breathing heavily with her eyes half-open, I felt like all the air has been ripped from my lungs. I did the first thing that came to my mind,

after the shot, she had succumbed to a

the silence in the limo that was stretching to the base. It was just us and Ari, other

knows.” I contradicted. Flying the doctor here was going to overwhelm her, as long as

“Laura.” He suggested,

her girl, and she

take her to

“Let’s surprise her.”

opposite u s, tugged neatly in my suit coat. Verzi and I were stretched relaxingly on the seats sipping on our whisky and soon, we were at the base mansion with sleeping Ari scooped in my arms as we climbed

and then exited the room to find Verzi

of everyone in your family. You hear

little lady like that, she was

sound when she was on a mission. She was fast and sharp as lightning, and never missed her targets. Even when you were running in circles, just one shot, and bam! Your brains

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