Beau (In the Company of Snipers Book 18) by Irish Winters

Author:Irish Winters [Winters, Irish]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Windy Days Press
Published: 2018-09-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One

By the time Beau dared look his employer in the eye, Mother had stopped talking. Alex’s phone wasn’t on the side table anymore. The room had gone scary silent, like those few deadly seconds before a bullet pierces your heart. The one a guy never heard. The round with his name on it. Somehow, Dorn’s sweaty face lifted up from the murk of that desperate day. His last words were, “Tell my wife I died loving her.”

Like a faithful dog who’d needed one more kick in the ass, Beau had delivered that message at Dorn’s funeral. After the honor guard had handed the flag to his widow, and most of the crowd had dispersed, Beau had cautiously approached Dorn’s wife and told her everything that happened, but especially Dorn’s last words. His wife had cried, and Beau had fought not to cry with her. She’d told him to keep in touch. He’d lied and said he would.

The years of meaningless abuse ambushed him now. Lifting his clenched fist to his lips, Beau tried to clear his dry throat. Didn’t work. Didn’t matter. There was no way to rationalize what he now knew to be nothing more than a lifetime of child neglect and abuse.

Alex was right. Beau’s need to fight the world and everyone in it began the day his mom died. He should hate her for what she’d done but try telling that to his heart. Her name was Fidget, a stupid name for a nervous drug addict whore who’d obsessively twitched until she’d scored. But she was still his mom, and she’d given just as bizarre a name to her only daughter, AJ. Ha. Named after a candy bar. Almond Joy.

And I loved them.

And they both left.

Just like McKenna will.

Shit. Beau sucked in one last breath before he’d have to face the truth and let her go. Damned if she didn’t squeeze his wrist just enough to get his attention again. Turning his head, he looked down into her trusting face. There was so much he wanted to say to her. He lifted one finger to the tangle spiraling over her forehead and tucked it behind her ear, never more certain than now that all this ugly information was news to her. That she wasn’t complicit in yet another ambush. With that gentle confidence in him, it was time to leave before he ruined everything for her, too.

“Did you hear anything Mother just said?” Alex asked.

Beau nodded, the fight finally stomped out of him as he turned from McKenna to face another hard man. “Yeah, I heard. What do you want me to say?”

“Just thought you’d be a little more excited. Relieved maybe.”

Holding onto the last of his shredded pride, Beau shrugged. “I lied on my job app. So sue me.”

Alex cocked his head, his brows narrowed as if he didn’t understand.

“Will you knock it off?” Maverick snapped, gesturing at Alex. “What the boss is trying to tell you, dumbass, is he can clear you of the military charges you’re facing.

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