#Chapter 27: Lessons

I was tending to Theo after we moved him to his own room next to mine, so that he would be more comfortable. The medics checked his vitals and concluded that there had been no physical harm caused, but since they found him unconscious, they instructed me to make him rest for a couple days. No training was to be permitted.

Theo was not happy about that. “Nothing bad even happened to me.”

“No, nothing bad happened,” I confirmed, not exactly telling the truth. In my book, this was my biggest nightmare. But I didn’t want to scare him. “That doesn’t mean you don’t have to rest.”

He made a face in protest. It was going to be hard to keep him inside. Maybe it was better to scare him into it.

“Buddy, why do you want to go back out there already?” I asked, running my fingers through his hair.

He looked at me as if I was handcuffing him down to a bed in a house fire. I saw the blazing desire in his eyes to get back out there immediately, as if nothing hap