Saviour (Saviour #1)(85)
“His brothers came to the hospital?”
“Yeah, Cooper is it? He stayed last night and the other one, Zac; he’s back here now. Fuck Loz, they’re a good looking family and they seem to think a lot of you”
Despite all of this new information whirring through my brain, I smile at what she's said.
“Yeah, there a hot bunch of boys, Stella's a gorgeous too; Ava looks a lot like her”
Gabe appears in the doorway.
“Did you eat all of that?”
“Yes” I open my mouth like a child, showing him it’s empty as he shakes his head, saying “Nice Lauren, very mature”
I flip my middle finger and smile sweetly.
“Oh and so ladylike too, remind me again why I love you?”
“Because I have great tits and give a blinding blow job” I reply with a smile. His mouth drops open as he looks from me to Jemma. He shrugs his shoulders and grins at me “This is true baby, this is true”
The buzzer goes for the intercom and Gabe goes off to answer it, shaking his head as he does, only to be replaced by Zac in the doorway, it’s like Piccadilly Circus in here this morning!
“Well helloooo” Jemma says quietly beside me. I feel like we are fifteen again, back at school as I try not to giggle.
“Hey Lauren, how you doing?”
“Come in Zac, come in. Yeah I’m okay, my chin and jaw hurt and I have lovely bump on my head but apart from that, I'm fine”
He comes in and sits on the bed, he looks exactly like Gabe, but in a much more rugged, manly way, his denim blue eyes are soft as they look at me.
“Jimmy tried his best to keep the f*cker locked up but he was able to come up with the bail money and they were happy to let him go with the intervention order in place, sorry about that”
“Don’t be daft Zac, it’s nobody’s fault, hopefully getting the police involved this time will do the trick and keep him away” God, why is everyone else apologizing for something that my arse hole of a husband has caused. I decide to use the opportunity to ask about Gabe “Zac, how’s Gabe doing, really? I hear he was a mess last night?”
“Yeah, look, he’s okay, he was spewing last night, we thought we were going to have to get the doc’s to give him something to calm him down, if he had got hold of your husband, he would have killed him for sure but once we got word that the police had him, he calmed down. Cooper stayed over last night just in case there were any problems, I spoke to him this morning, they sat up for a while talking and he said Gabe had a good cry, which is good, with all the shit that’s happened in the past, we know he’s no good when he bottles things up. I spoke to him just now when I got here and he’s just worried about you now”
“I’m ok Zac honestly, it’s all been more of a shock than anything, although it did scare me last night, but look, as long as I have Gabe, I will be fine”
“He loves you Lauren, he really does, I have never seen him like this, none of us have, except with Ava of course, I am so glad that he’s found someone”
“Yeah, just a shame I have to come with a shit load of baggage though, shame he couldn’t have met himself a nice normal girl”
“Lauren, you met our family last week, you had a baptism of fire, so you know what a f*cked up bunch we are, if you were normal you wouldn’t have fitted in so well. The ol’ man hasn’t stopped going on about ya, you’re good for Gabe and as long as your good to him, that’s all that matters to us”
Jemma is still sitting in bed with me and I know she will ask questions later about Gabe’s past, she doesn’t miss anything and will have stored Zacs comments away for another time. She climbs out of my bed and collects up my plate and cup and heads off to the kitchen with them.
“Sam will be over later to see you, if that’s okay?”
“Zac, shit, does everyone know, do they all know what he did to me?”
“Well yeah, why?”
“Because it’s embarrassing, I feel so ashamed”
He holds my hand “Lauren come on, this is no more your fault than what happened to Gabe was his, you have nothing to be embarrassed about, we’re family, the rest of the world won’t know all the details, only us and we should know, that way we can help. We learned a lesson with Gabe, so we don’t keep secrets in our family, you may have noticed we tend to say exactly what’s on our minds”
I laugh, yeah, he’s not wrong there but before I get chance to reply, Gabe puts his head around the bedroom door. He has a soft beautiful look in his eyes and a smile on his face.
“You have a visitor, let go of her hand Zac, come on out, let’s give her some privacy, you perv”
Zac kisses my hand as he flicks Gabe the bird, ahhh such children. As he leaves, Ryder comes through the door, my beautiful baby boy, my tears are instant. He literally fly’s across the room and into my arms.
“Mum, I’m so sorry, I should have come sooner, I should have returned your calls, Dads just been such a mess, I felt sorry for him. I didn’t realise how bad things were, why didn’t you say something, why didn’t you tell us what he was doing to you, we knew he had a temper but you always seemed to be able to manage him and keep him under control”
He’s crying into my chest as he talks and I stroke his hair and breathe him in, God I have missed my children so much.