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renovation I’ve got nothing on, we could stay with him, take it in shifts I guess.” Cameron suggests. Knowing Max that’s not going to go down well. He’s a strong willed individual when he’s not messed up on drugs. This isn’t going to be easy.
    “I’ll give Georgia a call, see if we can set it up.” It’s not going to be easy, but we have to pull together to try and help Max. It’s the least we can do. “Does Luke need anymore help?” It wouldn’t hurt me to get my hands dirty for a while, right now I really need a distraction, something that will tire me out, help me sleep at night. Sleep hasn’t been my friend of late that’s for sure.
    “I reckon we could do with a hand. He’s gutting the whole interior of the house first, then when he’s remodelled the garden will need landscaping. Pretty sure he could use a lackey like you.” I can hear the smirk in Cameron’s voice.
    “Cheeky bastard.” I laugh. “Just remember who your commanding officer is.” I remind him. We chat for the next half hour catching up on who is doing what, and who is doing who, although we’ve not been able to find out any more about Jacob’s mysterious vet nurse since we last met. He’s keeping pretty tight lipped on the subject that’s for sure.
    We end the call with me agreeing to call Georgia and the Captain to see what support we can offer, and what support the Army can offer. Max may be stubborn, but even he can’t take on all of us. At least I hope he can’t.
     

Chapter Nine
Declan
    The call I had been putting off all morning is irrelevant now. Georgia just called. The surgeon has made the decision that they need to take Max’s leg off mid calf. It’s infected, and if they don’t deal with it now, he could end up losing it above the knee.
    “How long has he been on the drugs?” I ask her.
    “How… I don’t… how did you know?” she asks guiltily.
    “He took them in front of me.” I reply, my voice heavy with disgust. “How the fuck did he get hold of them if he couldn’t even walk?”
    Georgia tells me that she thinks it was one of the other patients in the hospital that started him off, and that a guy has been coming to the house most days. That’s why she’s covered in bruises, she’d begged Max to stop and he’d lashed out at her.
    He’s going back into the hospital and Georgia has agreed to let the Doctors know so they can make sure he can’t get any more supplies whilst he’s in there. It will complicate his recovery, but hopefully he’s not too far into the addiction.

Several Hours Later
    The phone is ringing and it drags me from yet another nightmare. I grope blindly on the nightstand for it and only succeed in knocking it to the floor. I curse as it continues ringing and vibrating across the floor.
    I can’t get to it in time and it stops ringing. I’ve just decided I can’t be bothered to leave the comfort of my bed and it can stay there till morning when it starts ringing again.
    “Have you seen the fucking time?” I question as I answer it without checking the caller display.
    “Declan?” I don’t recognise the voice on the other end, other than it’s female and it’s crying. “He’s gone Declan.” Through the sobs I realise it’s Georgia on the phone.
    “What do you mean he’s gone?” I’m half awake and can’t understand her. The clock says three am. I’m pretty sure the hospital wouldn’t have picked him up this early.
    “He took an overdose, he left me the fucking coward.” She’s sobbing loudly now. I shake myself awake trying to understand what she just said.
    “What do you mean he left you?” I sound like a fool repeating everything she says, but I’m really not grasping what she’s trying to tell me. Georgia can’t get any more words out from the sound of it, she’s sobbing so hard. There’s a scuffle at the other end and then a new voice comes on.
    It’s a doctor who explains that Max had been brought into the emergency room after taking