Wild Side (Rose Hill #3)

46. Tabitha

CHAPTER 46

TABITHA

I exit the door, turn right, walk twenty feet, feeling like I’m going to hurl all over the floor, and immediately press my back against the wall and my hands against my churning stomach. I suck in big, fast breaths, trying to regain my composure because watching Rhys hurt like this is fucking killing me.

I feel helpless. I feel useless. I want nothing more than to crawl into that bed and hold him until he’s better.

But he doesn’t want me there.

Or so he says.

Fucking dick.

“You all right, hon?” the nurse from earlier asks me.

I give her a feeble nod and a watery smile. “Needed a second to compose myself, that’s all.”

She nods back, looking at me like she just knows . “There is something very vulnerable about being stuck in a hospital bed. Makes people do and say things they usually might not. I see it all the time.”

“What about people who aren’t in the hospital bed who desperately want to bludgeon their husband for being stupid and stubborn as hell? Is that something you see very often?”

She chuckles. “Actually, it is.”

I nod quickly and glance away, feeling mildly embarrassed as I reach up to swipe a tear from my cheek. “Perfect, I’ll have company in prison.”

“Well, if you need an alibi, you just let me know.” The woman winks at me, and it reminds me of Rhys.

It reminds me of what we’ve been through. It makes my throat ache with how much I love him. And it gives me the boost I need to walk back in there with my composure fully intact.