Chapter 9 #3
“I’m fine. So is Yanick.” Sharon was relieved and told him so. “I am as well. I was worried as soon as I saw the body. He removed his head with one swipe of his paw. That takes a powerful bit of muscle to do that to someone.”
“Or anger. You did say that he’d been keeping an eye out for this girl for a while now.
” He told her that she was doing all right as well.
“Good. You just bring her home with you, and we’ll take care of her until we hear something different.
Yanick told me that her father was in prison—there seems to be a lot of that going around and that her mom was in the hospital.
Perhaps you can have a look while you’re there to see if we can help her on the road to recovery. ”
“I’ll do that.” As soon as he said that, Margo asked him if he’d do the same thing.
He told her that he would. “I have to go now. There are people around that want answers, and I have to be on my toes. The way things are going here, I might not make it back before lunchtime tomorrow. Just don’t wait up for me. I don’t want us both to be exhausted.”
“I’ll try not to stay up, but I worry with you being gone. It’s different when you’re in the hospital around here. You’re still an hour from home.” He said that she’d been taken to the local hospital when he requested it. “I take it it’s not all that far from where the other place is then.”
“No, it’s the same distance from where we were.
The alpha approved her going to the hospital where I work so that I could take care of her.
” She said she was happy with that. “I’m going to get off here now.
I can see Conri and the others now, and it won’t be long.
I’ll see about seeing Margo’s mother while I’m here. ”
He didn’t have any trouble seeing her mom, but there was no hope for her in getting out of the hospital soon.
She had stage four cancer throughout her body, and her organs were beginning to shut down.
He told Margo what was going on, and she seemed to understand.
She said that her mother had been sick for a while now, and the doctor told her that there wouldn’t be much more they could do for her but to keep her comfortable.
At dawn, he was headed home. Sharon was up, but she’d only just gotten out of bed when he arrived.
After kissing her on the mouth, he told her that he only wanted to lie down for a little while, as he didn’t want to sleep all day.
Almost as soon as the lights were off in their room, he was sleeping.
He’d not been this tired from working in a long while.
Waking at noon when his alarm went off, he had a message from Margo. She was released to go home today and wondered if he’d come and pick her up. She would have asked Yanick to take her home, but he was stressed out enough.
“My home isn’t really a home so much as a shed that has a car in it.
I’ve been staying in it for about a year now, and that’s why I hang out at the restaurant.
The food is better, and sometimes I can stay in the apartment above the place if the owner isn’t around.
If you could pick me up and take me there, I’d appreciate that. ”
He was going to bring her to his house, and she could stay there.
He’d even make sure that she got back and forth to the hospital when she wanted to see her mom.
Kendrick did wonder what his brother would say if he knew where she lived.
He’d more than likely bundle her up and take her to his house for sure.
But he was in a better situation than his brother was in, in that he had a home with bedrooms, whereas Yanick lived in a house, it was only two bedrooms, and one of them was a makeshift office for him.
Making his way back to the hospital, he told his family what his plan was.
To keep the kid safe was a high priority for him, and he wasn’t going to take no for an answer.
She needed help, and he was in a position to help her as much as she’d allow him to.
He really didn’t expect her to allow him to do too much for her, but he was going to be there for her if she needed him.
All he had to do was convince her that he was her safest bet right now.
The hospital was busy when he arrived. There was no talk about the dead man from last night, and he was surprised to see that the alpha was still there.
When he spoke to him, he told him that he was taking care of Margo and then told him about her living situation and her mom.
He wasn’t happy that he couldn’t take her into his home as well as Kendrick had it all covered.
Kendrick took Margo down to see her mother before they left.
She held her hand while he was in the room, so he stepped out to give her some privacy.
Standing at the door, he wanted to make sure that she had as much time as she needed and was willing to guard the door for her so that she could.
When she met him in the hallway, he could tell that she’d been crying, but didn’t say anything.
She was entitled to her own privacy from him as well.
The drive home didn’t take very long. The two of them talked all the way, and he was glad to know that she’d graduated from high school the year before.
There were little bits of information he was learning about her, and he was glad that he’d been able to help her out with this.
As soon as they pulled into his driveway, Sharon met them on the porch and welcomed Margo with open arms. As soon as they were in the house, he decided to sit on the bench outside on the porch and rest. He’d not gotten enough sleep today, but he knew he’d be all right.
Being home helped, and he was never so happy to be there as he was in that moment.
Margo was given a room, and as he’d gone with her to pick up some of her things, he knew she’d not be going back there so long as he was alive.
It was just as she said, a shed with a car hanging out of the opening of it.
He wondered what she did in the winter months and was happy that he’d found her before something else might have happened to her.
He liked the kid and was glad that he’d been able to keep her safe at least for now.
Kendrick didn’t know what tomorrow would bring, but he was going to be here for her today and all the todays that she’d allow him to be.