When he came to, he was in a hospital.

Felix was checking his head.

The Hales were all there.

Jonathan’s wife was cupping his cheeks, her face full of heartache. “I said it—Julian just had surgery, his brain’s still delicate. Rex was way too careless. He didn’t get shaken up too badly, did he?”

Jeremy wanted to toss out a couple of snide remarks, but he swallowed them back down.

Jeffrey and his wife, of course, ...