MEREDITH
The drive back to Manhattan from Morristown was agonizingly slow.
Josef focused on the road, but I was a bundle of nerves. The stain on his shirt got bigger. I found a handkerchief and pressed it against the wound, and other than a flick of his gaze to where I touched him, he didn’t even flinch.
He shifted the vehicle into park the second we reached the garage. Then he jumped out of the seat, opening my door before I even had the chance to get unbuckled.
One of his men was waiting there to take the keys, and more stood guard as Josef lifted me out of the SUV, refusing to put me down.
“The doc is waiting outside the front door, Boss,” Mario said, and I wondered how he beat us home.
Then I saw the big SUV parked behind the one Josef had driven and I realized my bodyguard had followed us all the way back.
“Thank you, Mario,” I said, and my husband growled.
I pressed closer to him, the move must have been the right thing to do, because he stopped his grumbling.