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The call for medical assistance came shortly after.
    Reed’s heart slammed so hard in his chest, he was afraid it might crack a rib. He’d never been so scared in his entire life as he was at that moment. When he returned, Simon didn’t crowd Andi. Instead, he came to stand by Reed, putting a hand lightly on his forearm.
    “We’ve got her. No one’s going to hurt her anymore.”
    “Damn straight, they’re not,” he rasped, barely reining in the urge to kick the shithead on the floor.
    Whatever it took to keep her safe, they would do it.
    Cooper looked over at them and nodded softly, as though he could hear Reed’s thoughts.
    Then it was chaos. He found himself blocking a crowd from flooding the room, stealing the last of Andi’s privacy. Unmovable, he kept everyone out until the EMTs arrived a few minutes later.
    Reed, Cooper and Simon watched as they worked on Andi, stabilizing her.
    “She’s lucky you got here when you did,” the first responder admitted in a conspiratorial whisper. “It doesn’t look like he’d raped her yet. The drugs will clear out of her system by themselves in twenty-four hours or so. It wasn’t a dangerous dose. Well, other than…”
    “Yeah. Thanks.” It was all he could manage.
    Reed stood by the gurney as they prepared to wheel Andi out to the waiting ambulance. He clasped her hand tight. Maybe too tight since her eyes fluttered open.
    “Hey,” he murmured. “You’re going to be okay.”
    Just then a woman approached. “Reed?”
    He couldn’t remember her name, but he hadn’t forgotten how it felt to be buried in her ass while Cooper fucked her pussy and Simon fed her his cock. Not exactly something he felt comfortable reliving with Andi there, wounded. “I heard what happened. I’m so sorry.”
    “Not now.” He dismissed her without ever looking away from Andi.
    Cooper and Simon flanked him, keeping the woman at a safe distance. But he’d hurt her feelings, something he prided himself on never doing with the women they enjoyed together. It was a personal low for him, and she got caught in the crossfire.
    “Cut him some slack, please?” Cooper tried to reverse the damage Reed had done. “Andi is special to us.”
    “Unlike me, who was just some random lay you three shared? I was wrong about you guys. You’re like all the rest. Total assholes,” she snipped before marching away, justifiably offended by their callous disregard when she’d only been trying to be kind.
    Reed couldn’t find it in him to care. He still stared at Andi.
    Which was how he knew she’d heard exactly what the woman had said. Her eyes grew wide. She sucked in several rapid, ragged breaths through the oxygen mask covering her mouth.
    Her busted lip moved as though she tried to speak, but he hushed her.
    “Later. We can talk about it at home. When you’re better,” he promised, though he admitted to himself he was banking on the drugs lingering in her system to erase her memory.
    Andi nodded, a tiny bob of her head before her eyelids drooped again.
    Cooper rounded the gurney and clasped her other hand in his. “We’ve got you, sweetheart. You’re safe now. Don’t worry about anything else.”
    Her gaze roamed until it landed on Simon.
    With all three of them surrounding her, she relaxed.
    “Time to go,” one of the medics told them.
    Andi tensed.
    “I’m staying with her,” Reed insisted. “We live together.”
    “Fine. But you’re the only one.” The EMT began to wheel her away, cutting off their opportunity to argue.
    “We’ll meet you there after we talk to the cops,” Cooper called as Simon blew Andi kisses.
    Reed held her hand the whole way to the hospital, even after she’d succumbed to unconsciousness once more.
    He wasn’t sure he could let go ever again.
    That could be a major problem.

Chapter Four
    Andi plucked fuzz off the well-worn comforter that cocooned her like a friendly hug. Snuggled into her nest on her slightly saggy mattress in the apartment