THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH
Then, to Marcus’s visible delight, Ethan sat.
The doctor peeled back the bandage. Ethan didn’t flinch, not even when the antiseptic hit raw skin. “Doesn’t that hurt?” “It doesn’t matter.” “It matters.” I hadn’t meant to say it so plainly. He looked up at me, and for a second he wasn’t my bodyguard anymore just a man who looked faintly startled, like he wasn’t used to being worried about.
The doctor finished and walked off to see to another officer. Marcus went to deal with the police captain, leaving the two of us alone at the back of the ambulance, rain slowing to a mist around us.