Dangerous Secrets by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies, Anthologies, Teen & Young Adult, Anthologies & Literature Collections, Contemporary Fiction, Genre Fiction
Amazon: B00L0LQGHO
Publisher: Storytellers Unlimited, LLC
Published: 2014-06-13T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

‶Did you say you loved me?″ It was the first thing Morgan said when she awakened six weeks ago in the Virginia hospital. Jack had been by her bedside as he′d been when she woke the first time.

He′d gotten up from the chair he′d been sitting in and stood near the head of the bed. ‶I do love you,″ he nodded.

Morgan went to throw her arms around him, only to be reminded of the pain in her shoulder. She flopped back against the pillows.

‶How long have you known?″ she asked.

‶Twelve years.″

Morgan′s eyes must have opened as wide as saucers. ‶You mean when we were in—″

He took her hand, interrupting her. ‶Yes, when we were in Korea. I gave what I felt about you other names. I told myself it was nothing special. That I could live without you. I told myself it wasn′t love, yet the moment I found out you were in trouble I couldn′t stay away.″

The room was semi-dark. Sunrise painted the sky shades of gold and orange. Hart no longer slept on the sofa. Jack′s voice was low and reverent, as if the two of them needed to whisper.

‶You have to get well,″ Jack said. ‶The moment you′re out of here we′re getting married. Twelve years is a long enough engagement.″

Morgan′s recovery was nothing short of miraculous after that. She was happy. She didn′t think she could ever be happier, but each day brought another surprise. The newspapers broke the story of her attempted murder by Carla Lewiston and Carla′ s subsequent arrest. Reporters descended on the hospital like Baptists at a revival. Jack and a battalion of secret service and private nurses kept everyone away from her, but the papers and television news stepped up programs of them, pulling out everything they had in their archives about her and Hart. Hart was constantly on the screen, and strangely his ratings in the polls went up. The increase, however, didn′t have the odds makers predicting a win for him.

Allie and Jan showed up the day after the story broke. Some of Morgan′s other Olympic teammates sent flowers or fruit baskets. Get well cards poured in by the tens of thousands. Jack got a kick out of teasing her about all the ‶friends″ she had.

Days later her room looked like a florist′s shop. The day she was released she took a phone call from the Olympic Committee. They asked her to officially open the games in St. Louis if she was well enough.

Morgan thought she′d die from happiness. She chose to do her physical therapy at Jan′s camp, under the direction of her taskmaster friend and former team member. Leaving the hospital, she and Jack returned with Jan and Allie to West Virginia.

Only two weeks before the opening ceremony Morgan stood in the beam gym. The runway looked longer than she remembered it. The place was full of campers at different stages of exercise. Morgan had almost no pain from the gunshot wound. Her daily exercise routine helped her gain strength and muscle definition.

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