Ryder - Caveman Insticts Book Three(47)
A girl with brown hair who looked close to the same age as the jet-black haired girl sighed. “It’s so fun buying all the babies’ outfits.” She beamed at both woman. “Your babies have made me totally clucky, but also helped me get my fix. The awesome thing is I get all the good stuff like dressing them in cute outfits and cuddling, but hand them back when unpleasant things like diaper changes are needed. Its win, win for me, I love them and then give them back and focus on uni.”
As I stared at them and listened, I wondered if they had the wrong the room. I didn’t know any of them. They weren’t who I expected to see when I awoke. Clearing my throat loudly I got their attention. “Hello. Have you got the wrong room?”
All three women stopped talking, turned to me, and smiled, their gazes holding pity, concern, and a good dose of interest as they stared at me. “We have the right one. You’re Divinity?” the strawberry blonde asked.
“Um, yeah. I don’t know you three, do I?” I narrowed my gaze and wracked my brain for anything on the three women before me and came up with nothing.
The brown-haired girl waved her hand as if shooing a problem away. “You don’t know us yet. I’m Jade and I’m married to Stephan, Ryder’s cousin.” She pointed to the jet-black haired girl. “That’s Bailey, and she’s married to Richard, another of Ryder’s cousins. The strawberry blonde Annabelle is married to Carl, Ryder’s uncle. We came to keep you company while the guys drag Ryder away to force him to eat, shower, and sleep. Now you’re awake we can all take turns, not just your father and Ryder, so you’re not alone. You also have a guard out at your door too. Gillian and Carol and my mother-in-law Evelin were going to be here, but we thought it best it be us. We know how you feel over the Silvermans. Trust me when I tell you I know how they come in and take over. We didn’t think you were ready for the mothers yet.”
I nodded as I studied the women. Jade and Bailey barely looked old enough to be married, and I was sure I heard Bailey say she had a baby. I furrowed my brows. She’d explained why Ryder wasn’t here, but she said my father took Ryder’s shift and stayed with me when he wasn’t around. So where was my dad now? Did I still need the guard? My mind swirled with questions and I was glad it was them and not Ryder’s mother or aunts. “Nice to meet you,” I mumbled.
“We wish we were meeting you under better circumstances.” Annabelle stated and darted her gaze to the other two women. She took a deep breath. “We wanted to check to see not just how you’re doing physically, but mentally. We know how crazy the Silverman men get over their woman, and we just wanted to see if we could help so you didn’t have to lie to Ryder, er if you do, do that.” She groaned. “Let me explain, when I was giving birth to my twins I learned to down play my pain, because even though my hubby is a doctor—so he knew that delivering his children would hurt— he freaked out about me being in so much pain. The nurses had him removed twice before I learned.”
Bailey giggled. “She’s right. I don’t think I walked for like a week after Sebastian’s birth. I ended up needing stitches.” She shivered. “Anyway, I got carried around because all I said was, ‘It hurts to walk’. Which made Stephan’s caveman side come out.” She grimaced. “I hope you get what we mean.”
“I get it. Ryder grabbed the nurse and made sure I received pain relief the first time I awoke.”
Jade moved a little closer. “What happened to you was crazy.”
It was insane. I had a feeling when I wasn’t doped out on pain meds and being distracted by people I would freak out about it too.
“I was almost kidnapped, but my bodyguards saved me.” Bailey said. “Um, we also wanted to come by because we heard what you did, and how you fought and well, um…” She looked down and then her gaze caught Jade’s and Annabelle’s.
“We want you to consider teaching us some moves and self-defense. We want to learn how to defend ourselves.” Annabelle babbled out. “We heard you even escaped too, or would have.”
I was shocked at what I was hearing. How and who did they hear all this from? “How? Who?”
Bailey smiled, lighting up the whole room. At first glance she was a shy, plain looking young woman who, and then she smiled and she became stunning. “Ryder. He told us. He’s so proud of you. Your father and brother are too, but, well, your dad stays away from all us. He’s, er, not much of a talker, but we can tell he’s proud though.”