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“If we wait any longer-” Her voice cracked.
“What if he’s not going to make it?”
Emmett leaned back into the sofa, face blank, shirt still spattered ed.
Sebastian stepped forward.
“Emmett, whatever happened, this isn’t the place to deal with it. He needs a hospital. Unless you’re really planning to let him bleed out in your sister’s living room.”
“Mr Laurent,” he said, flat and clipped.
“This is my family’s problem. Not yours.”Under any other circumstances, Sebastian would’ve walked out or started swinging.
Instead, he took half a step back and adjusted his tone like he was lying not to spook a wild animal.
“Emmett. I’m not here to interfere. Cassian’s a friend. I’m just asking you to let him get medical attention. He’s in no shape to argue. Neither are we, if something worse happens tonight.”
“He’s not dying, “Emmett said without even looking at Cassian.
“I didn’t go for the kill. He brought this on himself. He thinks he can sneak into my sister’s bed under my nose? He’s lucky he’s still breathing.”
“Barely,” I muttered.
“He didn’t sneak in,” Yvaine snapped.
“I invited him. And I’m not twelve. I don’t need you vetting my relationships.”Emmett didn’t answer.
Sebastian tried again, still measured, still painfully calm.
“I think they both know what they’re doing. Maybe there’s some misunderstanding here. Let him get checked out first. Then you can yell at him all you want.”Emmett rose from the sofa in one sharp movement. His shadow blocked half the light.
“Misunderstanding? I walked in and found a man I trusted with my sister half-naked in her house. That’s not a misunderstanding. That’s betrayal. You’re friends with him, Mr Laurent. You know exactly what he’s like. If it were your sister he was screwing, would you be this calm?”Sebastian moved past Emmett and grabbed Cassian under the arm. I took the other side.
Cassian didn’t even lift his head-just groaned once, breath rattling.
We started dragging him towards the front door.
Emmett didn’t block us. He just stood there, breathing hard, jaw flexing Yvaine hurried after us.
“Stay right there!” Emmett’s voice cracked through the air.
“He goes to the hospital, fine. But you’re not going with him. Sit your arse back down!
Emmett, please! Just let me check on him if he’s fine, I’ll come straight back.”
“No”
“You broke his nose, probably cracked a rib We’ll have to pay the hospital bill. The beast I can do is go with him.”
Emmett stepped forward His tone dropped to a low grind so you’re defying me to him?
“No. 1 just he’s in rough shape “Yvaine Carlisle,” he said through his teeth, “you walk out that do with bou, you can target you’ve got a truther Yvaine froze halfway through the door Sebastian and I were already outside, shoving Cassian’s suity arse to the bash seat His nose was bleeding again Yvaine clenched her jaw, turned, and followed us anyway.
“Emmett, don’t be dramatic. I’ll be back in twenty minutes.”She jumped into the car.
Cassian’s injuries turned out to be mostly superficial-bloody, yes, but not serious.
The bulk of the bleeding had come from his nose, with a few scrapes on his arms and hands from the fall.
Emmett’s fists had done the rest.
No broken bones, no internal damage, just a face so bruised and swollen he’d be unrecognisable in family photos for the foreseeable future.
As a doctor tended to him, I dragged Yvaine out by the wrist and shoved her into the nearest stairwell.
“When did this start? You and Cassian? Why the hell didn’t you tell me?”She looked like she wanted to crawl into the floor tiles.
“My birthday,” she muttered.
My stomach dropped.
Her birthday.
I ran through the memory: She was hammered. Couldn’t walk straight. Kept trying to escort me home, even though she could barely talk.
I left in a cab. Cassian offered to take her back.
But there was no flirting at the party. Nothing even close.
So whatever happened, it happened after they left together.
I narrowed my eyes.
“You weren’t even making eye contact that night. You’re saying you jumped him after the car ride?”
“Yes” With me, she could be frank So you two have been together for what, months now? And I had idea”
“Well, we are not exactly together… she mumbled Was it a one-night stand?
Yvaine nodded Then “Well, more like a string of one-night stand We’d just get together when we have the time, you know.
I stared at her shouldn’t have let you leave with him. You were out of your mind.
“You don’t have to feel guilty He didn’t make any moves og puked on hun in the hallway. He stayes! to clean g: Took a shower i saw up with a start 1ked what i saw I stared she didn’t blok He didn’t drag the into anything.” she added I was the out it was one night at least, that was the plan. I didn’t tell you because it wasn’t sugged to be serious And now?” I asked slowly She shrugged.
“I think I like him.”I rubbed the centre of my forehead.
“Yvaine-“
“I know what you’re gonna say. That he’s a flirt. Emmett already gave me the same speech. I’ve heard the stories too.”
“I’m not trying to break you up,” I said.
“But he’s not exactly boyfriend material. Sebastian filled me in on the ride here. Said Cassian’s decent in a fight, generous with his mates, and loyal in the ways that count, but he goes through women faster than he goes through razors. Half the time, he’s in a new bed before the old one cools off. That’s probably why Emmett lost it.”Yvaine nodded.
“I know. But he said he’s done screwing around. It’s been over a month since my birthday, and he hasn’t touched anyone else.”I smacked the back of her head. Not hard. Just enough to hopefully knock some sense into her.
“And you believed that? You, who could have anyone, decided to get tangled up with a confirmed playboy?”Yvaine said simply, “He’s hot. He treats me well. I like him. I’m not planning our wedding. If he starts sniffing around anyone else, I’m out. Simple as that.”I opened my mouth. Closed it again.
She wouldn’t listen now.
If I pushed, she’d only dig in harder. She’d convince herself everyone wanted to keep them apart, and he’d look even more appealing.
I knew that because I’d done it. I’d clung to Daniel Granger with both arms and most of my dignity, even after everyone warned me he was bad news.
Maybe Yvaine really could walk away. Maybe she meant what she said.
I hoped so.
The doctor finished patching up Cassian, and we stepped into the room together.
Sebastian had already sorted a nurse for him.
Cassian was calling his family, lying about having to be away on a business trip for weeks.
Just before I left with Sebastian, I paused at the door.
Yvaine was sitting on the edge of the bed, holding Cassian’s hand. His knuckles were wrapped. Her thumb moved tenderly across the gauze.
He stared at her with a look that was possibly adoration.
They looked ready to take on a firing squad together.
“Do you think he’ll change?” I asked Sebastian quietly.
“Wouldn’t bet on it.” 1
After we left the hospital, Sebastian and I grabbed brunch near East 8th.
“I’ll drive you,” he said after I told him I planned to go back to Oakwood Apartments,
I nodded, remembering not to say “thank you” like I always did.
“About last night,” he started.
“Yeah?” I stared out the car window, distracted.
I was thinking about Priya.
The payout from the Isobel Brooke case was finally clearing.
Priya was heading home once the money landed, and I didn’t know when I’d see her again. Probably not for a long time.
I figured we could do one last walk around the city. Maybe grab come. Maybe people watch in the park and complain about men.
“After we left the bar,” Sebastian said. He seemed to be choosing his words carefully I turned to look at him.
“Did something happen after we left? Right I forgot, Daniel was still there. I hope someone called the cops on him.”
“Let’s hope so.” He smiled a little.
“Is that what you wanted to talk about? Daniel?”
“No.” The word seemed to come from between clenched teeth.
“I went to talk about us.”
“What about us?”
“Do you remember what you said in the car?”I tried to recall.
“I said plenty, I think.”I remembered the kiss.
Somehow, Sebastian’s kiss always seemed hotter when it was done in the backseat of a car.