"Thankyou," Bryn murmured, lowering her lashes. Hit and run? No, it hadn't been a regular hit and run.
And she knew how Lee had felt all along; she couldn't believe he hadn't decided that enough was enough and told the police the entire story from the beginning.
"I'll see you again in a couple of hours," Dr.Kelten said, walking briskly toward the door.
"Wait!" Bryn begged, calling him back. She kept her lashes halfway over her eyes. "I understand there's a problem with my nephews coming in. Doctor, they've been through a lot. It's important that they get to see that I'm all right, especially the little one...."
Dr.Kelten interrupted her with a friendly laugh. "You can see the little boys, Miss Keller. Mr. Condor has managed to get my entire staff eating out of his hands.But only for a few minutes. If you want me to release you tomorrow, you have to toe the line!"
Bryn smiled. "Only for a few minutes!" she promised. The doctor left the room. Bryn made a grab for the wheeled tray, searching for a flip-up mirror in the slender drawer beneath it. She found it and anxiously scanned her features.
She was very pale, but otherwise she looked remarkably well for a woman with a concussion. Her forehead was bruised, but she could brush tendrils of her hair over it with her fingers.... There was a tap at her door, and then it opened slowly. Lee was there. Tall, commanding, his eyes a golden shimmer of anxiety. He smiled at her slowly, ruefully.
But he never had a chance to say anything. Adam was pushing past him.Adam, with his blond curls, cherubic cheeks, and tear-filled green eyes. "AuntBwyn !"
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She didn't feel a bit of pain as she sat up and caught him to her, sweeping his little form into her arms.
"Adam, oh, Adam!Precious! I've missed you so! I love you; oh, Adam, I love you--"
"Are you going to get well, AuntBwyn ? Are you? Do you promise?" He crushed himself to her. She hugged him ferociously.
"Yes, Adam, yes!I'm going to get well. I promise. Your silly aunt just let another car get too close, that's all.Oh, Adam!"
She started to cry, just clutching him, unable to let him go. Then she opened her eyes and looked over his shoulder, and saw Lee standing there. Then she knew that he had understood that the greatest medication she could receive was this time with Adam....
"Thankyou," she whispered to him. She might have whispered, "I love you."Because she did. She had never known how completely until that moment.
Chapter 12
"I was hit on purpose, wasn't I?" Bryn asked Lee. He was standing at the window, staring out, though at what she wasn't sure. All that could be seen was part of the roof and a lot of power lines. And it was dusk, so not even that dubious view was a good one.
It was the first chance they had had to be alone. Brian and Keith had followed Adam in to assure themselves that she was all right. At last a pristine nurse had arrived to sternly say that the boys had to leave. They had set up a minor howl, but Lee had promised them that they could play with the drums and the piano, and in a matter of moments Barbara and Gayle had been able to take them away. Lee had promised Bryn that Andrew would stay at his house that night along with Barbara, and that Gayle and her husband, Phil, would also be there. Andrew had spent the afternoon combing the place with an agent from a security company, and all doors and windows were now wired with traps that blared loudly and instantly set off an alarm at the police department. Lee, it seemed, intended to stay with her at the hospital through the night, and neither hell nor high water would move him.
"Lee?" Bryn persisted quietly when he didn't move.
He moved away from the wall where he had been leaning and came to sit at the side of the bed, idly taking her hand in his.
"Yes," he told her, his eyes following his fingers as he traced the pale blue lines of her veins. His eyes met hers. "Our whisperer called right before the Highway Patrol did. It was a warning so we wouldn't call the police now that Adam is back."
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Lee shrugged, and Bryn was surprised to realize that he seemed uncertain. He always knew exactly what he wanted, and how he wanted to go about getting it. "I admit,Bryn, that I wanted to convince you to call the police the minute you walked back in the door. But now...now I don't think it would be such a great idea."
"You think that we should just forget the whole thing?" She wasn't sure if she was hopeful or furious.
"No," Lee said, his eyes meeting hers. "Don't you see, Bryn? No matter what, you'd find yourself living in fear for years and years to come. This person has to be caught and stopped."
"You just said you didn't think we should tell the police!"