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“Em, good. Can you get me sprung from here?”
She looked from Lani to Jakob, who shook his head. Her gaze moved back to Lani. “Sorry. You aren’t my job anymore.”
“You’re my friend. I need out of here.”
“You have a concussion. You were shot.”
“It was a graze.”
Jakob opened his mouth to say something, but Emily stepped in.
“There was a rather hot older version of you at the nurses’ station when I came in. Is that your brother?”
“Jensen’s here?”
She nodded. “Go. I’ll make sure she doesn’t make a break for it.”
He hesitated for a moment, then stood. After setting the script down on the bedside table, he turned back to her.
“Try your best to rest, please.”
He kissed her forehead and headed out.
The moment the door shut, she opened her mouth, but Emily stopped her.
“Nope. I will not help you. Even if I was still your protection, I wouldn’t. Not after how I saw Jakob react.”
“What do you mean?”
Emily walked over to the window and settled in a chair. “He acted as if his entire world had fallen apart.”
Lani looked away from her. “I was fine.”
“He didn’t know that. When someone is in love with you, it doesn’t matter if you are fine. Those few minutes that the worst fear is realized…that shows who you truly are. For Jakob, he was ready to burn the entire damned world down. You’re lucky.”
Lani looked back at her friend. It had only been a week since they’d reconnected at the Dillon offices, but she knew she and Emily would be forever friends.
“Have you heard anything about what happened with Royal, Rick, and Sienna?”
She rolled her eyes. “Mix has been texting me info he’s getting from his sister. I’m not sure he’s supposed to do that.”
The door opened, and Jakob came in, followed by his brother Jensen. Older by a few years, Jensen had always been the bad boy. There was always a dangerous air about him. There was no mistaking that the two men were brothers, but their personalities were completely different. Jensen could be a bit on the stuffy side.
“Lani, I’m sorry for what you went through,” he said, kissing her cheek. She heard a noise that came from Jakob’s direction.
Jensen shook his head. “Ignore him. He’s a little out of sorts.”
“Move aside,” Jakob said, then he took up his spot once again.
“Em, this is Jensen, Jakob’s older brother.”
Jensen nodded in her direction.
“She was just going to tell us what was going on.”
“Yes, Rick and Royal have been blackmailing people for the last four years. High society women who want a walk on the dangerous side. Or, I guess, older men who wanted to have affairs.”
“It makes no sense what they were doing with me. Why would they come after me?”
