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“She’s so subtle,” my Mate mumbled under her breath and then sighed.
I would give everything I owned to know what she was thinking.
“Listen, Liam, I’ve been thinking about last night…” she trailed off, bit her lip, and glanced at Grayson, who was running circles around Goose.
When she looked back at me, her eyes were full of indecision. We sat there for a full minute, simply staring at each other.
I swallowed. The anticipation was killing me. I wanted to reach out and hold her hand and comfort her.
But I needed to give her space right now. She needed time to process everything that was happening between us. I fully understood the indecision in her eyes and her hesitance to enter into a romantic relationship with me.
I had broken her trust. I needed to do everything in my power to earn it back and show her I would never betray her again.
“I just-“
Her words were interrupted by a sharp scream.
Splash!
Our heads simultaneously whipped to the side.
Dread coursed through me.
By the light of the setting sun, I saw two little hands flailing in the deep end of the pool. Ella’s warning about Grayson from yesterday ran through my head.
He isn’t the best swimmer.
Ella POV
My brain and body froze.
But I just saw him over by the grass with Goose. Grayson can’t be in the pool. He can’t be…
Liam shot out of his seat like it had been set on fire and sprinted toward the pool. Thankfully, my body unfroze, and I was only a split second behind him, running at his heels, anxiety for my son making me run faster than I’d ever had in my life.
As I neared the pool, my heart dropped when I saw Grayson struggling to stay afloat, his head breaking the surface of the water for only a second and then sinking back down,
his little body struggling toward the edge of the pool.
Goose had run over, and he was barking at Liam, like he was yelling at him to save Grayson.
Liam jumped into the pool and grabbed hold of our son as I skidded to a stop at the edge.
My first instinct was to jump into the water, but I resisted the urge, knowing that Liam would be able to pull him out, and I needed to be ready to administer CPR if my son needed it. Instead, I kneeled down and thrust my arms forward, ready to help Grayson out of the pool.
Grayson’s arms were still wildly swinging, not realizing that his dad was trying to save him. One of his elbows smashed into Liam’s nose, and it immediately began to bleed. But Liam didn’t even flinch. Bright red blood flowed down Liam’s face as he handed me Grayson, who had just now realized we were trying to help, and had stopped struggling.
When Liam handed me our son, I cried with relief. Adrenaline made my son weightless as I pulled him out of the pool and onto the concrete.
Grayson began to cough up water, his face red, his hazel eyes wide.
I scanned his face, checking to see if I needed to do CPR.
My shoulders sank with relief when I realized he was breathing.
Aunt Mia rushed up to us, Goose tried to lick Grayson’s face, and Liam came out of the pool dripping water and blood.
But the only thing I could focus on was my son.
“Grayson, sweetheart, can you speak?” I asked, rubbing his back. “Are you all right?”
“I…think so,” my son said and coughed again.
Liam kneeled down and put a protective arm around Grayson’s shoulder.
“Son? Are you all right?” he asked.
“Yeah…I think…I am, Dad.” Grayson cleared his throat and tucked himself closer to his father.
For a moment, the three of us sat there, catching our breath.
***
“If we watch him sleep all night, would that be creepy?” Liam asked from behind me.
“No, not at all. But I’m probably biased,” I answered.
We were in the doorway of Grayson’s room, looking in on our son peacefully asleep. Goose was stretched out on the foot of his bed. It was hours after Grayson had fallen into the pool, and after a quick trip to the compound hospital, he was deemed perfectly healthy. Liam was told that his nose might be broken, but he waved off the healers and set it back in place himself after he cleaned himself up.
A clean bill of health for our son didn’t stop Liam and me from standing outside his doorway for nearly an hour after he fell asleep, watching over him.
“How did he fall into the pool?” Liam muttered.
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