“Who the hell can it be?” I watched from the hospital bed as Austin paced back and forth in the sterile room. I looked down at the bulky cast on my forearm and frowned. The doctor had said the brick had broken three of my bones in my arm and they had to strap me in this cast for six weeks.

I was in the hospital because the doctor was worried that the stress had affected our unborn baby. I knew there wasn’t anything wrong with the baby; I don’t know how I knew I just did. I looked up at the ceiling in the cool hospital room and thought to myself that maybe all this would stop if I let Austin.

Mia would be okay with him. I mean he’s got enough money to support himself and his daughter but with me in the picture it was causing danger to our family. Tears started falling down my cheeks as I thought of my life with Austin. Four years ago I was just a hopeless dreamer with so many mental issues I was surprised I wasn’t in a mental institution and then along came Austin.

He saved me from myself. I was falling into a pit of despair and then like an angel in black he appeared.

“Taylor? What’s wrong? Are you in pain?” Austin was on the bed in a second, his large hands cupping my face. I just shook my head at him and he bent down to kiss my nose.

“You’ll be so much better off without me.” I cried out and he pulled me so close to his body I could feel his heartbeat on my chest.

“Don’t you ever say that. Don’t you ever fucking say it. You and Mia are my life. You make my days’ worth living now. We’ve got through worse, we’re getting through this. You fucking understand me?” Austin’s face was red by the time he’d finished his rant at me. I nodded at him and he clutched me closer to his body.

“Right. Let’s get you dressed and home. I’ve had a company installing security cameras all around our home.” Austin whispered to me before climbing out of the bed and I crawled out too. He helped me get dressed since the bulky cast on my wrist wasn’t helping me any.

We were home quite quickly and I was sitting on the sofa while Austin spoke to the security guys at the home.

“Taylor, baby. I want you to meet Richard, he’s going to your security guard for the moment until all this blows over. The man next to him is Edward he’s going to Mia’s security guard.”

“Okay…” I regarded the two huge men and frowned. They were huge literally huge. They topped Austin and he wasn’t a short man and they looked like four of Austin if he stood sideways. Huge.

“Baby?” Richard pointed to my stomach and I nodded at him. His face softened immediately and he sat gingerly on the sofa next to me like he was afraid it was going to break under his weight.

“I will protect you with my life.” He vowed to me and took my left hand then kissed it. I smiled at him and Austin smiled back. The guys who were installing the security cameras left after Austin handed them a cheque and our security guards disappeared out back.

“Do you want to watch a film?” Austin asked as he sat next to me, worry still etched in his beautiful face. I nodded to him and he headed towards the DVD player. He put in Star Wars and I indulged him, I mean it wasn’t often he watched the films since I got with him.

He sat on the sofa and I rested my head on his chest as he played with my hair. My eyes closed as he started speaking the same words on the screen, reminding how obsessed he was with these films. There was a knock on the door and I groaned but Austin shushed me.

He stood and opened the wooden door where Tony and Jaime stood on the porch with a smile. It was chucking down with rain outside and the guys were soaked to the bone. Austin allowed them inside and they both shook their heads like dogs, splatting water everywhere. I was glad Mia was still staying with Gus and Alan at the moment since I didn’t want her to catch onto the bad habits most of the guys displayed.

“Oh cool. Star Wars.” Tony plopped his butt on one of the arm chairs and his body squelched against the leather and I winced.

“Get off the leather before she kills you.” Austin said as he tossed a towel at each of the men. Tony heaved himself off the chair and scrubbed his hair with the towel and that was when I noticed the new tattoo across his jaw and that he’d stitched his ears up.

“I know. I look funny.” Tony scraped his hand over his face and smiled at me.

“Not funny. Different.” I said to him and he grinned again.

“Is it true you’re having another baby?” Jaime asked as he wiped away the wetness and tossed his shirt towards the laundry room.

“Yes.” I turned my attention back to him as Jaime thumped Austin on the back with a huge smile on his handsome face. “You can’t tell anyone yet though. We need to keep it a secret for the moment.”

“Yeah, sure, not a problem.” Jaime flopped onto the sofa and stuck his feet on the table. Austin walked past and kicked him in the leg to get his feet off and then sat back down next to me.

“Why are you two here then?” Austin asked as he took a bite of a sandwich he was holding.

“Well, Vic and Mike went home to see their parents and we thought we’d go somewhere for a bit oh and I broke up with Olivia.” Jaime said as he stuffed a chocolate in his mouth that was on the table.

“So you decided to come shack up with us?”

“Well actually we’re staying with Alan and Gus we did originally come over to see Mia since we haven’t properly met her because of the touring but we found out what happened to you Taylor so we decided to come see if you were alright.”

“What about the other thing?” Austin asked and I stretched my neck back to look at him but he was looking straight at Tony.

“Oh yeah!” The tall man jumped from the chair and rushed outside back into the rain when he came back inside he was holding something in a blanket.

“Austin thought you’d like this so he bought you him.” Tony announced as he placed the bundle in my lap. A little black nose popped it head out before a tiny bark emerged and a pit bull puppy poked its head out of the blue blanket.

“Oh my God! He’s so adorable!” I squealed in excitement at the small puppy. I noticed the tag around his neck said ‘Echo’ and I loved him even more.

“He was from a puppy farm. Austin heard of the farm and decided to save this little guy and drop a hint to Animal Cruelty.”

“He’s adorable. I love him and I love you.” I bent around to kiss Austin as I looked at my new puppy.

Notes

Title Cred: Nickelback

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