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Dire approach she’d been
so into her conversation.
    Alpha rolled her eyes and moved from the chair. “I’m going to go have a
swing of that turkey, pretend to knock down each of your ugly mugs with it.”
    “How you feeling Mia? I thought you looked
a bit tired when I glanced over. Ready to call it a day?”
    “Ash is having fun.”
    “Not at all what I asked.”
    “Maybe I’m a little tired and have a slight but insignificant headache,”
she admitted because staring at his worried face, she couldn’t muster the lie
that she was fine.
    “You’ve only been home for four days. You didn’t think you would be all
healed up by now, did you?”
    “I don’t know. The doctor told me I might have headaches for up to six
weeks and to not do any driving if I didn’t have to for a while. I’m just used
to being busy or at work. Sitting home doing nothing was nice the first day but
boring. I’m not into daytime soaps.” She rolled the hem of the blanket around
her fingers. “Ashland leaves tonight. Her father’s parents are sending a car
for her. I get to look forward to Sinclaire hovering
over me.”
    “I bet we can get you addicted to the movie networks. Have you taken your
pain meds?”
    He’d have to ask that one out point blank as they’d spent an hour arguing
the night before about the bottle of pills she refused to take. “I took
something for my headache.” Her evasive maneuver didn’t work.
    Dire crossed his arms giving her the
not buying your story quirked eyebrow.
    “What did you take and when?”
    “Two over the counter pain reliever pills about three hours ago.”
    “How long have you been sitting here hurting or playing. ”
She missed the playful man she enjoyed seeing. In his place was the annoying
controlling persona promising to shove the meds down her throat if need be. She
saw her first glimpse of his serious alter ego at the hospital.
    “I don’t know. I’m always sort of not feeling a hundred percent. The
headaches come and go though.”
    “ Volante .” Dire signaled to his
partner Rees, who jogged over to see what was going on.
    “You need me?”
    “Yeah, tell Ash to grab her things. It’s time to take her mom home. I’ll
go tell the Captain I’m taking them home now.”
    “B-but aren’t you working?” She stammered the words as everyone around
her closed in.
    “Does she need medical attention?” One of the medic trained men
approached.
    “Hey Lopez, no. What she needs is to get some rest and
to take the pills the doctor prescribed instead of riding out the pain and
further exhausting her body.” Samara nodded.
    Okay, so his words had a smidge of merit behind them. She hadn’t thought
she was stressing her body. The pain pills she could handle but the muscle
relaxers made her feel so loopy she couldn’t stand it. So she opted to avoid
both and deal. Plenty of people did.
    “Hey Mom. The guys said you aren’t feeling good.”
Ashland’s cheery face held a definite frown.
    “I’m okay baby, don’t worry.”
    “But, I’m leaving with Grandma and Grandpa in a little bit. How am I
supposed to go have fun when you are in bed? At the hospital, going seemed like
such a good idea but now it doesn’t. You always make me feel better when I’m
not feeling good.”
    “We talked about this Ashland, remember? About Alpha, Samara and I taking
care of your mom while you visit your friends and have a fun winter vacation.”
    “I know, but she’s my mom.”
    “I’m not dying, Ashland. Come on, let’s get you home and out of my hair
so you can have fun choosing between your guys.”
    “Not cool, Mom.” Ashland stuffed her MP4 player into her pocket with a
sigh and stomped off.
    “Ouch.” Dire held his hand out. Mia accepted the olive branch and stood
up with the blanket cocooning her. She folded the still warm fabric and set it
on the chair.
    “I still have a few tricks up my sleeve.” Mia attempted a smile that in
all reality, to her at least, came across as a