Dance With Me by Kristin Leigh

Author:Kristin Leigh [Leigh, Kristin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Military, Contemporary Fiction
ISBN: 9781622100828
Amazon: B00IM0OLZA
Barnesnoble: B00IM0OLZA
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Published: 2014-02-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Rebecca rolled over in bed and moaned. Her mouth felt like it was stuffed with cotton and her brain was freaking throbbing. She’d drank way too much. After Major left, Chris had walked Rebecca to the door to hail a cab for her. He’d known, just by looking at her, that something had happened. But he’d been kind enough to keep silent. He’d given her a gentle hug, asked if she was all right, and left it at that.

Rebecca’s night hadn’t ended there, though. If it had, she would have woken up before—she checked the clock—two thirty in the afternoon. Instead, she’d come home and cried into her beer. Rum, whatever. She’d cried harder than she had in eight years, letting the sobs consume her until she was wrung dry and drunk off her ass. Then Rebecca had stumbled to bed and passed out.

Her tears weren’t a result of getting it on with Major—first on the dance floor and then in a hidden storage room. No, Rebecca cried for what she couldn’t have. Major had come back again, but just for a moment. There would be no more sensual dances, no more fierce embraces. And worse than that, Rebecca had no possibility of having a baby to remember him by. For a few seconds after he’d left, she’d forgotten and let herself hope for a pregnancy, a small part of him that could stay with her forever.

But that had been taken from her so long ago. A cursed pregnancy and a forced miscarriage had caused irreparable damage to her uterus. So the surgeons had removed it and told her that she would never have children. Rebecca hadn’t told anyone. What was the point? There was nothing anyone could do about it; therefore there was no need to mope. Just like there was no need to rehash the things that had led to it. Some bodies were best left buried.

Tears burned her eyes again and Rebecca angrily squeezed them closed. Besides, she reasoned, Major had said he couldn’t get her pregnant anyway. It was a moot point. But for a few moments, there had been enough alcohol and adrenaline in her system that Rebecca had forgotten. And hope, the most dangerous of all emotions, had consumed her.

“I have some ibuprofen and water for you.”

The softly spoken words from the doorway of her bedroom startled a short scream from Rebecca’s throat. When she saw the man standing there, icy glass of water and pills in his hand, she nearly fainted.

“Major?” she whispered, stretching her hand out as though to make certain he was there.

“Yeah,” he responded drily. He moved toward her bed and sat down on the edge. Rebecca took the two pills from him and gratefully washed them down with the water. When she leaned over to put the glass on her nightstand, he stopped her.

“No, you need to drink it all.” Major looked in the direction of the living room. “You had a hell of a binge last night when you got home.

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