More Than Forever (Providence Series Book 2) (7 page)

Walking toward Isla’s car, I pressed the ignition button on the key fob. I fucking loved those, it was like
Knight Rider
! 

I had a second to appreciate the purring sound coming from her
BMW Z4
before it exploded and a wall of heat hit me that hard that I went flying backwards. The worst pain I’d ever felt in my head took over before I passed out. 

Chapter

SIX

I
sla

H
earing Luke say that
he’d never think that I would have got pregnant on purpose settled me a bit, but I still worried what everyone back home would think and say. Would they agree with him or would they assume that I was just like Calista? 

Ever since they’d come into my life, Calista and her mom had done everything they could to point out how inferior I was to Calista. When I’d left Piersville, it had taken me a long time to get even a small bit of confidence because of them. My Dad didn’t give a shit, the second he found Jodie and got rid of Mom, I ceased to exist in his eyes, which made it easier for them to target me. The only good thing that I’d had back then was Gram and Luke, and even that had fucked up. 

Going over to the sliding glass doors, I looked at the view across Singapore. It really was beautiful and I could feel myself starting to relax the longer I looked. 

I was pregnant…with twins, Luke’s twins; I still couldn’t believe it. Would I ever have figured out that I was pregnant or would I have been the kind of fucking idiot who didn’t realize they were pregnant until they got to the hospital with cramps and pushed out two babies? 

I heard Luke talking in the other room and wondered what he was doing. I
think
I believed what he was telling me, but I just couldn’t bring myself to fully believe and trust it. We had so much history and he’d hurt me so badly, not just once, but twice. Now he was telling me he loved me and that he was going to fix what he’d broken? I would never ever keep him away from the babies. He was their father, but could I let him close to me, too? 

I couldn’t stop the thoughts whirling around in my mind, so I never heard the footsteps coming up behind me and screamed when arms went around my waist. 

“Sorry, Angel, I thought you’d heard me,” Luke said as his hands gently rubbed my belly. “Are you okay?” 

I was just about to answer him when there was a knock at the door. “That’ll be the doctor. You go and lie down while I let her in.” 

Turning around, I watched him walk slowly to the door. He had a more pronounced limp now than he’d had earlier and his whole body just looked stiff like he was in agony. It hit me again how close I’d come to losing him and the fact that the twins would never have gotten the chance to meet their Daddy. What had happened still made me sick to my stomach, and as far as I was aware, they hadn’t caught the person responsible yet, and that scared the shit out of me. What if they came after him again and actually killed him?  

Thinking about it like that put all of this into perspective for me. I’d almost lost him. I might never have had these moments with him and watched his face as he looked at the ultrasounds of the babies and heard their heartbeats. I might not be able to trust him, but I was so grateful that he was awake and walking around. Hell, I was grateful he was
alive
. 

“Isla, this is Doctor Lo.” Luke was standing next to a petite Doctor who looked like a little doll. God, she was gorgeous. 

“Hello, Miss Banks.” She walked up to me and held her hand out. “I hear that things have been a little bit…tough for you.” 

Sitting down on the couch, I put the IV bag that I had to carry with me when I moved on the back of the couch. Trying to figure out where to start was problematic because there was so much going around in my mind. 

Taking a deep breath, I looked at Luke. “I’m worried that I’ve done something to hurt the babies because I didn’t know that I was pregnant.” He walked around and sat down next to me and took the hand that didn’t have a damn needle in the back of it. 

“Few women do, Miss Banks, but I see from your notes that the ultrasound confirmed that both babies are thriving and perfectly fine. It’s you who isn’t.”  

There was another knock at the door and Doctor Lo stood up. “That’ll be my assistant bringing the IV equipment. Give me one second please.” 

As she walked to the door, Luke squeezed my hand and whispered, “Please stop worrying, it will all be okay.” Looking him in the eyes, I really hoped that he was right. 

I was just about to reply when his phone started ringing.  

“Dad, did you get it?” His entire body turned to rock and his face turned white as he listened to whatever his dad was saying. “WHAT THE FUCK?” 

His head turned toward where the doctor was wheeling an IV machine toward us looking concerned. “Dad,” his voice was so tense it was almost a whisper. “Isla’s pregnant with my babies, I need her safe. I can’t let anything happen to them!” 

I’d never seen Luke like this and I was starting to panic about what was going on at home. “Okay, get him to contact Baz and figure out what we’re going to do and keep me updated on Cole and Cooper. Okay, Dad, you too.” 

Doctor Lo got to me just as he hung up and he watched her like a hawk the whole time she was changing the IV bag and setting up the machine. As soon as she left, he turned around and before I could ask the question eating away at me said, “There’s been two bombings back at home. Cole and Coleman’s guy Cooper are in hospital.” 

Seeing the look on his face, I knew there was more. “Oh my God, are they okay? What happened?” 

“I don’t know, Dad’s going to keep me updated. Coleman’s going to speak to Baz, and we’re going to need to do what they say, Angel. I know it’s not ideal with you being as sick as you are, but I swear I’ll keep you three safe.”  

“What aren’t you telling me, Luke? Why would we need to be safe? I mean, we’re in Singapore and this was at home; if anything, we’re already safe.” 

He stood looking at me for a couple of seconds before walking over and squatting down in front of me. I didn’t miss his flinch as he squatted on the leg that was obviously still painful for him. My hands were shaking now and I braced myself when he held my face and said, “The bombs were for us Angel. They were in my house and your car.” 

My stomach suddenly rebelled and I just missed Luke as I brought up the sandwich that I’d just eaten.  

E
bru

Running down the hall
toward the room that I’d been told he was in I couldn’t stop playing on repeat the words I’d just heard from Maya when she called me to say that she was on her way to the hospital. 

Bomb…explosion…Cole.  

I didn’t do caring because all it did was get you hurt.  Right now, though, I cared about what I was going to find when I got to the room. 

I knew the damage that bombs could cause, the life changing effects that they had on people not just physically, but also mentally.  

I stopped before I got to the end of the wall that was blocking Cole from sight and took a deep breath because I wasn’t sure what I was going to find on the other side. 

Stopping at the door to the room, I showed my ID to the security guard on the door and slowly walked past him after he nodded at me.  

Just as I cleared the door, I heard one of our nurse’s voice. “Can you get down from the bed please, Mr. Townsend. You’re going to fall!” 

“I’m a windmill! Look! Weeeeeeeeeeee…” 

What the hell?
Taking the step forward that I needed to bring him into sight, I froze solid when I saw what he was doing.  

All six foot five of him was standing on his hospital bed, butt naked, and twirling his dick around in circles. 

I don’t know what noise I made because I was too busy feeling torn between laughing and running out the door far away from the horror in front of me, but Cole’s head turned in my direction. He stopped doing what he was doing with his dick and stared at me long enough that I was starting to wonder if he had amnesia. 

That worry quickly went poof when he started grinning and turned around to face me showing off an impressive, very impressive in fact, erection. 

“And now I’m a unicorn!” 

I didn’t have a chance to react before I was shoved out of the way and Tony went flying past with his arms out in front of him yelling, “You snooze, you lose, bitch!” 

I was distracted from a screaming naked Cole trying to dodge Tony by a very pissed off voice growling, “What the fuck?” And someone literally laughing their ass off. 

Turning around, I saw Ren trying to keep Maya’s eyes covered as she dodged to the left and right trying to see around his huge hand and laughing to the point that she had to hold onto the wall. 

“Leave my magical horn alone you beast!” Cole yelled from the bed, still trying to get away from Tony. 

Maya had slipped down the wall by this point and Ren had given up trying to cover her eyes as he watched the scene in front of him in horror. I knew how he felt; this was the guy that I couldn't stop thinking about? 

Walking back out the door, I got as far as the nurses’ station before I heard a scuffle behind me and turned to see a butt naked Cole running towards me, his dick leading the way.
Ah, fuck my life!
 

L
uke
 

Isla’s belongings had been
brought to the hotel by one of my security while I spoke to Baz about what the fuck we were going to do. I could see by the look on her face that she wasn’t coping well with everything that was going, which was to be expected, but fuck I hated her feeling like that. I wouldn’t ever let anything touch or hurt her. 

“One of Coleman’s men is a bomb tech expert, he searched the debris from your accident site and found a detonator that hadn’t been picked up by the police. It’s one used by the military, Luke. So, whoever this guy is, he knows his stuff. So far, Piersville PD are blaming it on a gas leak in your property, but Coleman’s man is going to look and see what he can find. The detonator from the original accident site was so discreet that apparently, unless you’d seen one before, you wouldn’t know what it was or what it’s capable of,” Baz explained, running his hands through his hair. We were all frustrated and worried, but the person who was my world could have died if she’d been in Piersville today and the two lives in her stomach would have gone with her.