Burn For Him by Kristan Belle

with her again soon enough.”
    “Come on. Let’s get a move on.” Harper said impatiently.

Chapter Five
     
     
    We spent all night at the hospital. Milligan only left my side to go and see to the business implications of what had happened. There was no way that I could blame him for doing that. I didn’t even blame him for what had happened to Destiny. Accidents happen. Apparently, they had already reviewed the security footage and she had simply fallen. There was nothing more to it. She hadn’t snagged her foot on the carpet. She’d simply slipped.
    Harper had taken on the responsibility of calling Destiny’s father’s nurse to tell what had happened. Apparently, her father wasn’t particularly lucid at the moment and the nurse didn’t think that it would be wise to pass on the message just yet. We thought that we would leave that decision up to her. We had done our bit. She was caring for him and would be able to better assess the state of his mind. I couldn’t think of anything but Destiny at the moment.
    It wasn’t looking too good at the moment. Destiny had a broken wrist, her leg was broken in two places and she still wasn’t waking up. The doctors could find no medical reason as to why she wasn’t conscious yet and were planning on another round of tests in the coming hours.
    “You should get going. You don’t have to stick around here.” I said to Milligan when he came back from taking a call.
    “Are you going home?” he asked.
    “No. I’m staying right here.”
    “Then I’m staying too.”
    He smiled at me and took my hand like we had been together for years. We had only met a matter of hours ago, but the touch was real and comforting. It did feel like I had somehow known him forever and didn’t think twice about crying on his shoulder. It was a shock to think that it was only a little while ago that the mere presence of him had made me a nervous wreck and now I was a blubbering wreck in his comforting arms.
    “You really should go home and get some rest. This isn’t your problem. ” I smiled at him to try and soften the blow.
    It wasn’t like I was trying to get rid of him, and he knew that. I just knew that he had a business to run and staying all night at the hospital with him wasn’t going to do him any good tomorrow. I was feeling emotionally and physically drained and I knew that he was going to be feeling tired too.
    “You really need to try and get some rest yourself. You look like you’re ready to drop on your feet.”
    It was true. I knew that I was looking a little worse for wear. I had Milligan’s jacket on over the top of my skimpy outfit. I had been feeling cold and felt more than a little uncomfortable sitting around the hospital wearing next to nothing. Somewhere in the rush of getting out of the club, my leather jacket had been mislaid, so Milligan had offered me the use of his.
    I’d wished I hadn’t bothered looking in the mirror when I paid a quick visit to the bathroom when we’d got to the hospital. My hair was hanging in a limp mess after running my fingers through it nervously one too many times and I knew that I had already cried off most of my make-up. Milligan was still looking as good and unruffled as he had the moment I had first set eyes on him. If not better, if that was possible. He was clearly a night owl and thrived on lack of sleep.
    “You should let him take you home and try to get some sleep.” Harper said wearily when he returned with a couple of cups of disgusting smelling coffee in those awful plastic cups, and a can of Coke for me. “I’ll ring you and let you know what they say the moment they tell me anything.”
    I thought about it for a split second, but I shook my head at the pair of them. I couldn’t just leave her on her own like that. We were all that she had. Her father was in no fit state to be able to come to the hospital and she had no other family that gave a damn. We were it.
    “Carrie, listen to me.” Harper said as he