Him » Evanstan [The Fourth & Last Book of the Evanstan Series]

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"He'll be okay."

The room spins.

"What caused the seizure?"

James blinks to slow the room down.

"Well, we think it could be dehydration. It could've also been something else but dehydration is mainly it."

The room slows down and it starts to clear. His eyes land on Steve. Steve looks at him and then runs over to the bed.

"Baby," Steve says. His eyes are filling up with salty water. "You're awake."

"Wa." James says. He wasn't even thinking of the word. It just came to him. "Wa."

"Shh. Shh. Shh. Baby, don't speak."

James watches Steve grab a cup with a straw. He puts it to James's mouth. James takes it and drinks it as his thanks.

"I thought you were dead," Steve says taking the cup away.

James doesn't speak. He just looks at him.

"You're an idiot you know," Steve says. "Doing that to yourself."

James takes the insult. Steve's right.

"You can't just do that to yourself. You need to take care of yourself. You need to care. James I need you to care, we aren't teenagers or twenty-four anymore. You actually need to give a shit. I don't need what happened the last time to happen again. I care about you. I—"

"I love you too."