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Chapter 60

Johnny was sitting on the couch with his feet up cuddled with Emily and Ben when his phone rang. "O'Brien." It was almost story time and then Johnny had plans for his sexy wife.

"I need you to bring Jason down to the hospital right away." Alan told his son in-law.

"What happened?" Johnny was up and slipping on shoes. He pulled on his jacket and grabbed his gun. Emily was watching. "I need you and Ben to come with me. No shoes." He said telling her that they weren't leaving the building.

Hospital policy stated that Alan couldn't disclose this information over the phone. But this was family so policy went out the window. "There was shooting in the garage." So far the press hadn't picked on what happened, and he wanted his son in the building before that happened.

Johnny knew Alan would only be making this call because Liz was involved. "How bad?"

"I don't know. Monica is downstairs with Liz, I told my wife I would call." Alan needed to focus on his patient. The quick glimpse he'd gotten of his daughter had shown her covered in blood. "I need to go. I'm heading into surgery with your guy."

Johnny's stomach dropped. "We are on our way." He said hanging up.

"What happened?" Emily asked scared.

"Shooting at the hospital. That was your dad. You need to watch Cam." He said as opened their door and walked across the hall to knock on Jason's door.

"Hey." Jason said, he could tell by Johnny's body language that something was up. "Cameron, Aunt Em and Ben are here."

"We'll stay." Emily said putting Ben on the floor so he could go play with his cousin. "Call me."

"Yeah." Johnny said watching as Jason grabbed his gun and stuck his feet in his motorcycle boots.

"What happened?" Jason asked his best friend.

"There's been a shooting at the hospital." Johnny watched Jason go pale. "Alan called me and said to bring you down. He was heading into surgery with Kyle, he said Monica was with Liz." When the elevator opened in the garage they ran for the car.

They parked in Jason's space. There were already a crew of their guys in the lobby keeping the area secure. The first person Jason saw was Max. "Stop." The big guard told his boss. He could be risking his life, but he wanted Jason to take a minute. "She's fine." He knew that would relax the blonde.

"What?" Jason wasn't sure he heard that correctly.

"Mrs. Morgan is unhurt." Max said slowly. "Kyle took two bullets, but he kept her safe. He also took out the shooter."

"Who?" Jason needed to know.

"Taggert." Max watched surprise come over both his bosses faces.

"Taggert?" Johnny repeated stunned. "Because of what happened?" There was no other reason to go after Liz.

"I'm guessing so." Max said shrugging. "The new Commissioner is already investigating."

"Where is Liz?" Jason needed to see his wife right now. Johnny could get the rest of the details.

"In your dad's office." Max passed along. "Jason?"

"Yeah?" He stopped and looked back at one of his most trusted guards.

"From what I heard, Mrs. M is the reason Kyle is in surgery and not in the morgue. She kept him from bleeding out on the scene and stayed calm. She called for help and worked on him with the trauma team until they told her to step back. Tell her we said thank you." The guards would all be appreciative of her efforts.

"I will." Jason met Johnny's eyes and his partner nodded. He would get all the information there was and he would call Emily so she knew Liz was okay. The blonde mob boss then turned and ran for the stairs.

Hank was on the door to his father's office. Jason nodded at the guard but didn't stop. Opening the door he saw his girl and his mom sitting on his father's couch. For the first time since Johnny said what had happened he took a full breath.

"I'll go get a report on Kyle." Monica said leaving giving them some privacy.

Jason didn't even bother to speak, he just walked over and caught Liz when she threw herself in his arms. He wasn't sure which one of them was shaking harder. He squeezed her tight and then made himself loosen his grip. She was fine he kept telling himself. "Max wants you to know that the guys appreciate what you did for Kyle." He started there.

"It's my job." Her voice shook but she didn't cry. Liz had done that earlier with Monica. After watching Kyle take two bullets that were meant for her she was entitled. The important thing was that she held it together when it counted. "Do they know who shot at me?" Elizabeth asked her husband, letting him lead her back to the couch.

"Taggert." Jason told her. "Kyle killed him."

"Kyle was so fast Jason." Elizabeth hadn't even seen him draw his weapon and she was looking right at him. "One minute we were at the car and the next he was pushing me down and shooting. I didn't hear anyone shoot at us, but a bullet bounced off the car next to us. He was already returning fire by that point. How did he know?" She was awe struck.

"We train our guys to be the best." Jason was grateful for the new program that Cody instituted three years ago. You had to be outstanding to earn the rank of senior guard. Not just physically sharp but mentally sharp as well. After you got the rank, you then had to earn the right to keep it.

Elizabeth took a deep breath. "I hope he's okay. He took two bullets to the chest." She told Jason. "I did what I could."

"I hear it made a difference." Jason said squeezing her hand. Hank knocked then opened the door.

"Dr. Miller is here. She'd like to see Mrs. Morgan." He announced.

"It's fine." Elizabeth told the guard. She knew Jason wanted to fuss over her, but it was a good idea to talk to Diane now.

Jason nodded and Hank backed up.

"Elizabeth." Diane walked in taking a good look at the nurse. She looked steady. "How are you?"

"I'm okay right now." Elizabeth told the doctor. "This isn't my first shooting." She could tell she had surprised both Diane and Jason. "But yeah we'll be talking about this in an upcoming session."

"Where was your first shooting?" Diane asked sitting on the coffee table.

"I did six months of my nurse practitioner training in Jacksonville. One night I was working overnight and a gang banger came in and held up the ER for drugs. He shot the doctor in charge when he didn't hand over the key to the drug cabinet fast enough." Elizabeth explained. "I was standing right there with another couple of nurses."

"How long had you worked there?" Diane wanted to know.

"Four hours." Elizabeth told them.

"You stayed?" Jason just looked at his wife in disbelief.

"I was there to learn. Jacksonville has one of the busiest ER's in the country. I wanted to be the best. We saw a counselor. I shook it off because I still wanted to do the job. I'm going to have nightmares." She told Jason. "They will bad tonight and probably tomorrow. I'm already seeing Diane so that will help. But I'm willing to bet that there isn't a regular ER staff member downstairs who hasn't been through something traumatic at work. I was told that before I started a man held the whole ER at gunpoint and said he had a bomb." Elizabeth finished up.

Diane patted Elizabeth's knee. "I'm going to recommend that today be your final day." Alan wouldn't object.

"Thank you." Jason was all for that.

"No." Elizabeth immediately protested.

"Why not?" Jason wanted to know.

"I wasn't shot at while working. What happened tonight could have just as easily happened at the grocery store or the pizza parlor." Elizabeth told them both. "Taggert tried to use me to stick it to you, and it blew up in his face. So he tried to kill me to stick to you and that didn't work either. I need to know that I can walk back into this hospital and do my job. He doesn't get to take that from me."

Diane, like everyone else, had been surprised when she heard who was shooting at Elizabeth.

"I'm finishing the week, unless the hospital has any objection. We can fight about it when we get home." Liz told Jason.

"We will." He had no intention of letting her return to work this week. She could start her summer break now. Alan was going to back him, so would the board if Jason asked them to.

Hank knocked again. "Your mom is back."

"Let her in." Jason figured this was an update on Kyle. He didn't know if it was a good or bad thing that she was back so soon. "How is he?"

"In grave condition, but he survived the surgery and that is more than Alan expected." Monica would be honest. "If he makes it through the night his odds of surviving go up. Does he have family?"

"No." Jason told his mom. They made it a point to hire guys without dependents or close family members whenever they could. "Whatever you need to do for him then do it."

"We will. Even if your health care policy didn't cover it we would." The man had saved her daughter. There was no way they wouldn't make sure he had the best. "But that isn't an issue, your policy is better than mine." Monica had been amazed at how much Jason's company covered. It was one of the best health care benefit packages she'd ever seen. They had one hundred percent dental coverage. That was unheard of.

"Thanks mom." Jason knew Kyle was in good hands. "Should Elizabeth be looked at?"

"I already did." Monica assured her son. Her daughter hadn't been left with any choice.

"I'm going to check on Kyle." Elizabeth said standing. She needed to see the guard with her own two eyes.

"Alan is downstairs waiting for you." Monica said smiling. It was the nature of the beast. Medical personnel liked to see things with their own eyes.

Jason opened the door. "Hank, go with Elizabeth." Letting her out of his sight made him uncomfortable, but locking her down wasn't healthy for either of them.

"Sure thing boss." Hank responded. All the guys were looking at the petite brunette with new respect. The docs in the ER said she kept Kyle alive. The security guard who responded to the emergency call said that Mrs. Morgan had Kyle's gun in her hands and pointed straight ahead of her. She was keeping him from being attacked again. Jason's wife held it together in a tough situation.

"I'll be right down." Jason told Elizabeth.

"I'll wait there for you." And because she needed to she gave her husband a kiss.

"I'll go down too." Diane wasn't needed here. "Jason if Kyle needs to talk to someone later I'm around." She'd even hold his sessions off the clock.

"Thanks." The mob boss said. "Mom can I ask you something?"

"Sure." Monica rolled her shoulders to relieve some tension.

"Have you been involved in a shooting?" It was not something he thought he would ever ask his mother. "In a hospital."

"Yes." Monica told him. "I did my residency at John Hopkins back when the area wasn't so great. Lots of gang violence, which wasn't always outside the hospital. I was in the ER one night when two rival gangbangers shot at each other. Scared the hell out of me, but I finished my shift and graduated from the program. It doesn't happen in every hospital, but it violent acts happens more often than people think. She'll get a new guard?"

"Yeah, I need to go through the rotation and see who is a good fit." Jason told his mother. "I'm putting guards on you and dad."

Monica was guessing this was an isolated event. She heard about what Taggert did from Edward, who was bragging about rescuing Liz. She also knew that this would relax Jason. The guards would be temporary, and neither she nor Alan would object. "Just let me know who."

"I'll call later tonight with a name if I can. If not Johnny will." Jason told his mom, and then gave her a hug. "I'm going to go get my wife. Should she take something to help her sleep?"

"She should." Monica said starting to grin. "But I bet she won't want to. Tell her she is off tomorrow, we will see her on Wednesday." They'd put her in ICU so she could watch Kyle until the week was up. Jason wasn't going to win that fight.

"Thanks mom." Jason said before walking out of his father's office.

At the penthouse she got a hard hug from Emily, similar to the one she got from Johnny when he saw her. Emily wanted to check her out. The only thing that made her back down was that Monica had already done it. "Johnny go get Cam." Emily told her husband. "I'll call Georgie to watch the boys tomorrow."

"Actually don't. After breakfast send them back over here. We'll go do something." Elizabeth wouldn't want to stay in. She had no choice but to take the day off. It was hospital policy after something like this.

Over her head Jason looked at Johnny and mouthed 'call Georgie'. Johnny's smirk let Jason know his friend would. If Elizabeth had the night he suspected, she would be too tired to do anything but rest tomorrow. And he would be right here taking care of her.

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