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He pulled Cyn into his arms and held her as her resolve shattered.
She sobbed against him, and Kevin felt each and every one of her
tears.
"What happened?" Cyn cried against him. "How did he let this
happen?"
Kevin squeezed her shoulders. "He's the strongest man I know.
He'll be fine. Cyn, I promise. He'll be just fine."
Kevin and Cyn waited in that room as agents and officers came
and went, looking for news on Mac, disappointed when no one had
anything for them. Only a few people remained when the doctor
finally walked in.
"Well?" Kevin jumped up, into the doctor's face.
The older man stepped back. "He'll be fine. He's a bleeder, that
one, but he's also one tough son of a bitch. Even after we had him
under, when I went to remove the first bullet, his hand shot out and
grabbed me around the throat."
Kevin chuckled. That would be Mac. Even under sedation, he still
intimidated everyone around him with brute force. "But he will
recover?"
The doctor grinned. "Mac always does. I dug the bullet out of him
the last time he got shot. He only wanted a local that time and bitched
at me the entire time. This time he was already unconscious, so I
thought it would be easier. I guess I was wrong."
Cyn threw her arms around the doctor. "Thank you! Thank you,
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Doctor. Oh, thank you."
"Are you who he calls Sweetheart?"
Cyn stiffened and looked at him. "Why? Did he say something
about Sweetheart?"
The doctor shrugged. "He kept muttering something about
Sweetheart."
An officer stepped up and joined the conversation. "He called me
Sweetheart at the scene."
Kevin shook his head. "No, he didn't. Sweetheart, as in the
Sweetheart of Seattle."
"Who?" Both the doctor and the officer asked.
"Never mind." Kevin didn't have the energy to explain it. "When
can we see him?"
"He'll be in recovery for a while. Perhaps it would be best if you
come back tomorrow."
Cyn's eyes flew open wide as she looked at Kevin. He put his
hand up to stop her protest before it began.
"This is Mac's wife. I'm his& " He swallowed down the thought of
not ever being anything to Mac. "We're family."
Cyn looked at him. When the doctor glanced at her, she pasted a
smile on her face and nodded quickly.
"Well, since you're family." The doctor motioned for them to
follow him. Kevin and Cyn hurried behind him. "He's still under
heavy sedation, but it wouldn't hurt for him to hear your voices. When
he comes out of it, it would be nice to see a couple familiar faces."
Kevin agreed. In a matter of days, he'd gone from hating Adrian
McLane to sharing a woman with him. They'd gone through some
heavy shit together, but they'd never actually been close enough to be
considered family. Sharing Cyn, admitting their relationship to each
other, made them something like family, didn't it?
The doctor walked into a room, and Cyn and Kevin followed.
When they walked in, Cyn's reaction made Kevin's entire body tense.
She gasped and skidded to a stop. "Oh, my God."
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Kevin glanced up to see a pale Mac hooked up to machine after
machine, all of them beeping and blinking. Mac had his eyes closed
but breathed steady as he slept.
"He's okay," Kevin told her and took her hand. She nodded and
walked with him over to the bed.
"I'll just leave you two alone with him." The doctor checked a few
more monitors before walking out of the room, leaving Kevin and
Cyn alone with Mac.
"You dumb bastard," Cyn cried and walked over to the side all
bandaged up. "You stupid son of a bitch, Mac. How could you do this
to me?"
"Cyn." Kevin walked over to the other side of the bed and
stopped, not sure whether to watch Mac or Cyn. She looked ready to
unleash some pissed-off woman rant on Mac.
Kevin grabbed a chair and scooted it over for Cyn before grabbing
one for himself. This didn't feel right. Mac was the strong one
between the three of them. He didn't let anything get to him. The guy
was a pillar of strength.
Seeing him now, wires and tubes attached to him, needles
embedded under his skin, didn't feel right. If someone like Mac could
be brought down, what did that say for the rest of them?
"We'll get her," Kevin promised him. "Don't worry, Mac. She
won't get away with this."
Cyn watched him as he spoke. "What are you talking about?"
"Sweetheart did this to him. She played us all, Cyn. She knew
who Mac was at that rave. She had do have known. She probably had
one of her guys follow Mac and waited until he had his back turned."
"I saw the way she watched me when she touched him, and she
saw the way you reacted to me. She knows, Kevin. That's why she
came after me, to punish you and Mac. You can't go back there."
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