A by Anne Leigh

Author:Anne Leigh [Leigh, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Anne Leigh
Published: 2017-07-17T04:00:00+00:00

I’d always been a morning person.

From the time I could run, I ran with my dad and he loved to run before the sun had completely risen.

Dad loved to surf and I got that love of the water from him. The best time to surf was either at dawn or dusk. And since dusk was reserved for family time, Dad and I used to put on our wetsuits before mom woke up for the day. Dawn favored offshore winds and less human traffic in the water which was why for us surfers, it was the best time to ride the waves.

Growing up with a father who lived the military life meant being away from him a lot, but when he came home, bonding time was early mornings by the coast and breakfast at a local diner. We didn’t stick to one place, we tried a lot of breakfast places so we could experience variety. Mom didn’t mind as long as we brought her pastries.

I didn’t believe in much.

But I believed in what my father had taught me – that mornings were the beginning of memories.

And there was nothing that I loved more than beginning another memory with her.

The woman who occupied my bed and started to fill the empty, cracked spaces in my heart.

Athena.

She stirred in her sleep, her mouth slightly opened, her right hand went under the contoured pillow designed to support the curve of her neck thereby relieving pressure. It was one of the injuries she’d sustained from being crammed in the trunk of a car for hours.

I’d read the medical report. Head trauma, neck sprain, left bicep partial tear, UTI, and muscle contractures.

That was just half of the report. The mind and cardiac alterations caused by the drugs injected in her system would be enough for anyone to believe that she wouldn’t make it. I might not understand a lot of medical jargon, but I was competent enough to comprehend that “not a good prognosis for a full recovery” meant that my woman was in trouble.

But I refused to accept that she was going to be a statistic.

And so did her father.

He was my ally, my strongest one in fighting for her, in believing that she was going to be back to her hundred percent self again.

I would take her at any percent, as long as she was alive.

But as soon as my hand touched hers, I knew that she was going to be okay.

Or at least that’s what I kept telling myself and Joseph.

Dr. Simms always came in Athena’s hospital room with bad news. It wasn’t his fault, he was just giving us the facts.

But for every fact that Dr. Simms handed out, Joseph challenged each one of them. When Dr. Simms said Athena’s blood gas results were bad, (I had no idea what that meant), Joseph offered another possible explanation, and I could often tell that the other doctor became frustrated, but he respected Joseph’s opinions.

I guess that’s what made Joseph the best of the best.

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