When Spider woke Gianna up after they had gotten to the Thornes mansion and she couldn't mutter a coherent thought, he had literally carried her to her room carefully, muttering reassurances she never quite heard.
And when he returned to find a grumpy Zane lingering around like an unwanted shadow, Spider ignored him entirely and went right back to work, retreating to his cottage, to diet cokes and the food Florence had promised to send over, to making tangible progress before Gianna woke up and demanded answers.
"Was she lying down right? Did you make sure?" Zane asked as they walked toward the cottage, his tone hovering somewhere between concern and needless curiosity.
Bentley had been given a room by Florence the moment they stepped into the house—the matriarch hadn't even allowed the lawyer time to fawn over the mansion or gush about meeting such heavyweights in the business world.
