@howsthatforentertainment: (from here)
“Music to my ears. Your voice and the request.” Napoleon smiled. Kissing her again. He was so worried, frantic, that he’d never see her or hear her voice again if something had gone horribly wrong. It killed him every moment she was gone. He hadn’t slept a wink since it happened.
Napoleon picked her up. Carefully. Carrying her out. Bridal style. Catching glances every chance he got while walking. He was afraid it was all a dream. That he’d finally fallen asleep, was dreaming, and she was still gone.
He got outside with her. To the car he had waiting. “We should go to the hospital before we go home. Get you checked out.”
She smiled, weakly, but she smiled and had she been more alert when he picked her up, she would have wrapped her arms around his neck instead of fisting them in his shirt front. The last place Gaby wanted to go was the hospital. Endless hours spent and wasted just to make sure she was all right. Yes, she was a little out of it, perhaps a little dehydrated, but all in all she was fine.
Softly, she shook her head, curling into his side once he slid into the car beside her. “No. Home please.” She wanted a bath. A bath and to sleep and maybe she could talk him into making her breakfast whenever she decided to crawl out of bed. “I’m fine, Napoleon. Besides, you’ll see better care to me than any hospital.”