Hard as Stone(164)
“Oh, holy Christ,” Jake whispered, wiping tears of mirth from his eyes. “What was it man, performance anxiety?” he asked Abel gruffly.
“Fuck off,” Abel grunted, unable to tear his gaze away from Patience.
Cain interrupted the drama just then, holding up a hand as he gestured at the nurse. “Madge, Weaver’s a hack. He’s not touching my sister-in-law. Is Dr. Daniels still up in OB?”
“Think so,” the woman replied hooking her patient up to the heart monitors. “Want me to page him?”
“Yeah.” Cain nodded, wrapping the blood pressure cuff around Patience’s good arm. “And I think it goes without saying that anything you’ve heard from our patient….”
“I’m a vault, doctor. Besides,” she said with a long, regretful look in Abel’s direction, “Nobody would believe me anyway.”
Grabbing the nurse’s arm, Patience lifted her head. “I’ll be your witness, Madge. Just bring me back some more nummy drugs, ‘kay?”
Patting her hand, Madge nodded solemnly. “Only if you promise to tell me more about the lagging pierced junk later.”
“Deal,” Patience announced with a firm nod.
Watching the nurse hustle out of the room, the thin curtain swishing behind her, Harmony inhaled deeply. “Somebody needs to go outside and fill Honor and Faith in on what’s going on.”
“I’ll go. I wanna make sure Heaven and Miss Orla got here, too. I’ll be back in five,” Jake murmured, moving beside Harmony to brush a kiss against her cheek. “Hang in there, Spitfire,” he ordered Patience with a wink. “I wanna here more about the most terrible sex ever when I get back.”
“Again, fuck off,” Abel growled, shooting Jake a hostile look.
“”Kay!” Patience waved. “He’s sweet, Harmony. I like Jake.” Turning her drugged eyes towards Abel she continued, “Harmony got a stud that gave her nine inches worth of lovin’ whenever she wants it. Faith married the guy that took her virginity AND rocked her world. I got a dude with a decorated, but highly defective dick. Life’s not fair. You’re the bad twin, Abel. Bad, bad, bad.”
Gripping the rails of her gurney, Abel bent until they were nose to nose. “That’s it, sweetheart. You get out of this hospital bed, I’m getting a do-over. My dick is not defective; I was having a bad night. I promise when I’m done with you….”
Cain cleared her throat from the other side of the bed. “Uhmmmm, Abel?”
“…you are gonna feel me so deep you’ll swear that the first night I touched you was just a bad memory. First, I’ll….”
“Abel!” Harmony yelled, elbowing him in the side and nodding toward the curtain.
Looking up, he found Faith and Honor staring at him with wide, surprised eyes. “Well, hell,” he muttered.
“Well, I think we’ve finally learned the source of Patience’s animosity toward Abel,” Faith remarked with a grin.
“You slept with my sister?” Honor growled, narrowing her eyes on him.
“Yep! But he was really bad at it so it doesn’t really count,” Patience shared with a smile. “Did they bring me more drugs yet, Cain? I gotta an owie and it’s starting to really ache again,” she said, lifting her injured arm and crying out.
“Don’t move,” Harmony ordered, helping Patience lower her arm back to the bed again.
All attention shifted a moment later when a deep, irritated voice yelled from outside in the hallway, “Why in the name of Hell did somebody page me to the ER for a gunshot wound? I deliver babies, for crying out loud!”
Turning, Cain parted the curtain and stuck his head out into the hallway. “That was me, Mack! I paged you. Get in here. The patient is my sister-in-law,” he ordered.
“Whoa!” the man objected. “Which one?” he asked suspiciously. “The sweet one, the nice one, or the crazy one?”
“The crazy one,” Cain growled.
“I resent that,” Patience called out, lifting her head off the gurney to frown at Cain’s back.
“No, you resemble that,” Harmony returned with a sigh. “Lie back.”
“Of course it’s the crazy one,” the Voice grumbled. “I’ve been up for thirty-seven straight hours, and God sees fit to send me the crazy McKinnon sister. I hate this town.”
Harmony watched as Cain took a step back an incredibly tall, broad man stepped inside the cubicle with them. With messy blonde hair and golden brown eyes, he could have been considered handsome if he didn’t look so rumpled and exhausted.