Beautiful Confusion: A Pride and Honor Novella by Ember-Raine Winters

Author:Ember-Raine Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: military, alpa male, veteran hero

PART THREE

It was a week after the worst day of her life when the flowers started arriving. She had been sick for three days. She could barely move from the toilet without puking and she had to get up every day to answer the door for the same delivery man with another more elaborate bouquet then the last.

She grumbled as she heard the doorbell ring and walked to the front door. The flower man was standing there yet again with the largest bouquet of lilies she had ever seen.

“Maybe you should give the poor guy a chance,” he inserted his unsolicited opinion when she answered the door.

“Nobody asked you,” she sneered as she grabbed the clipboard and signed for the flowers.

She shoved the clipboard at him and grabbed the large case from his hands before slamming the door in his face. She walked past the bouquets of daffodils and Orchids and walked to the kitchen table where she had left the roses from the day before. She thought about leaving the card unread but a niggling at the back of her mind told her she really needed to read that card.

She snatched the little white envelope and made her way back to bed. If whatever she had didn't clear up soon she was gonna have to go to the doctor. She could only miss so much school before they failed her. Curling up on her side under her covers, she clutched the little envelope in her hand like it was a lifeline. She didn't want to read what he had to say, but she felt like she needed to read them. Like her whole life's happiness depended on the words he wrote to her. She tore open the envelope and opened the card. She looked at the cramped handwriting and tears sprung to her eyes.

Pix,

I love you, but I can't do this anymore. I need to explain to you what really happened. I can't do that in a card or over the phone. Please, please, please talk to me. Let me explain what happened. I love you more than the air I need to breathe. I would never do something to jeopardize that.

I wanted to let you know that I am moving to California unless you give me a reason not to. I am begging you to give me that reason. Even the slightest hope that we can work things out. Please hear me out. Don't throw us away.

Love Always,

Tim

She cried then. She cried until she couldn't cry anymore. Then, she ran to the bathroom and dry heaved. That's where her mother found her hours later. She was completely numb and her stomach had nothing left in it to throw up.

“What are you doing?” Her mother gave a disapproving scowl as she walked into the bathroom where Marcy was hovered over the toilet.

“What does it look like, Ma?” She asked irritably.

“Are you sick?” she asked, confused.

She shot her a dark look but suddenly her stomach began to roil again and

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