Page 14 of Smoke
Chapter Five
Smoke
Ashley was a mess in my arms. Her loud sobs filled the small space and I wanted to tell Elliot to just let me take her home, but I trusted his judgement.
I patted her back and tried to rock her in the oversized chair.
“I w-want to g-go home,” she sobbed.
Elliot gave her something in her IV and she seemed to calm a bit. “That’s just a little bit more medicine to help you relax, honey,” he said.
Feeling a bit helpless, I did the only thing I could think of and started to hum. Humming helped babies, right? She was my baby. Close enough.
It took until the second verse of the song before she started to settle. I felt like a fucking king. Finishing that song, I moved onto another one from the eighties.
Verse by verse she relaxed more and more, and eventually gave into her exhaustion.
Once she was sleeping, Elliot left with a promise to be back in the morning.
Half an hour later a soft knock on the door annoyed me. I’d just gotten comfortable, but I was thankful when I saw it was Bash and Blade.
“How is she?” Bash asked, his tone gruff.
“I was going to text you when I got her settled, I’m sorry,” I apologized, feeling guilty I’d not updated them sooner.
He shrugged me off.
“We know you’ve got your hands full,” Blade said, sitting on the unoccupied bed.
“Literally,” Bash said, sitting beside him. He set a bag on the floor in front of me.
“Hands full of his Little one,” Blade added like I didn’t get the joke the first time.
“She was upset, I’m just comforting her,” I argued.
“Yeah, but the way you almost killed her mom today told me just how much you care about her, even though we already suspected it,” Bash said.
“I wasn’t there to see it, but Kay told me all about it,” Blade added.
“I’ve killed for less,” I said.
“You’re such a bullshitter.” Bash laughed.
I pinched the bridge of my nose. “I don’t know how this is going to work,” I admitted.
“It’s not hard. You, Daddy. Her, Little,” Bash said, meshing his hands together.
“Do you need a diagram?” Blade teased.
“You two are a pain in my ass.”
“Eh, we’re feeling a bit cocky since we won the bet about you two having feelings for each other,” Bash said, shrugging.
“What. The. Fuck?”
They laughed.
“Dude, come on. Someone from your past shows up, who happens to be a Little, who could benefit from your protection and you expected us to not believe you’d be her Daddy?”
