Epilogue: Happy Forever After

~10 Months Later~

Rico didn’t bother parking the car properly. He was out of it before it had fully stopped, the door left swinging behind him as he pushed through the hospital entrance with heavy strides.

His heart was beating too fast and too loud. His fingers were curled into tight fists at his sides, his jaw set hard with the impatience of a man who was not used to being anywhere other than in control... and who was currently very far from it.

He moved through the hallway without slowing down, bumping into staff and visitors as he went. He didn't register any of it, as there was no room in him right now for apologies.

He had to get to Calla.

When his mother called, her voice was high and hurried in a way Donna Marta’s voice rarely was. Rico had been seated at the head of a table full of territory