“Why not? This is beyond a first aid kit.”
It wasn’t bleeding as much as I thought it was, but it still looked pretty deep. I couldn’t tell based on the shape how this happened, but something told me it wasn’t just a normal work accident.
He left to go somewhere with his… I wasn’t sure who that man was, but I knew he was dangerous, and Xavier had left with him, and now he returned home like this?
“Don’t worry about it. Why don’t you grab a clean cloth from the cabinet near the sink and wet it to clean away the blood.”
My lips trembled, along with my hand. I did not know how to do this. I had never had to deal with something like this before.
“Hey,” he said softly. “Just do as I say, baby. And don’t think.”
“Right, like that’s possible,” I muttered, standing up.
He slapped my ass with his good arm.
“Hey,” I yelled, looking back at him. “Be careful.”
He smirked. “Can still spank that cute little ass of yours, don’t worry.”
“I wasn’t worried,” I snarked.
His smile widened, and I walked to the kitchen.
What a fucking mess this entire day had turned out to be.
I quickly found the cloth, wetted it with warm water, and walked back to him.
We were silent as I ran the cloth over the wound, cleaning it up and putting some sort of gel-like solution on it as he directed me.
I wrapped him in a new gauze, leaned forward, and kissed it once that was done.
He sucked in a sharp breath from the move, and when I looked up at him, his gaze was directed at me, something dark swirling in the brown irises.
“Where did you go?” I asked, straightening and letting my fingers roam over his muscular arms.
“To work,” he answered evasively.
I knew he could see the doubt in my eyes when I said, “And this is normal? To go to work and come back injured?”
“Fuck, no. I got careless.”
I didn’t know what that meant, but I breathed a small sigh of relief. At least he wasn’t going to work expecting to be hurt because it happened so often.
“Who was that man?”
He looked over at me carefully. “My brother.”
“Your brother?”
I guessed it, but I was still surprised when he confirmed it.
I shuddered.
“Hey, Micah’s harmless.”
“Micah?” What an unusual name. But not so uncommon, because I swore, I had heard of that name before.
Where had I heard it before?