Deceitful Choices by C.A. Harms

Author:C.A. Harms [Harms, C.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

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I left a note on the counter telling Lindsay about my training for the day. I would be out until late this afternoon. My mother was supposed to arrive sometime tonight and I didn’t want her just showing up to freak the fuck out of Linds.

Talk of deployment was beginning to circulate, so they had doubled our training. It was long days and even longer nights. Late night swimming was grueling, after hours of running and jumping.

But I didn’t want to think of that now. I wanted to get through today and get home to Lindsay and Camden. I wanted to make things right and tell her that through the course of our nightly talks and Skype sessions, I had not only fallen harder for my son, but I’d begun feeling something for his mother too.

“The SEALs don’t produce pussies, men, move your asses.” SEAL Officer Morris was riding us today. He wasn’t taking shit, and pushing hard.

The fucking burn in my arms felt great as I turned my head to the side and winked at Paul. Fucker blew me a kiss as we continued on with our pushups.

“Are we a bunch of fucking pussies, or are we SEALs?” Officer Morris asked.

“SEALs, sir,” we hooted in unison.

“SEALs!” He followed up with, “Hooyah.”

The burn only pushed me harder. I felt like a fucking junkie when we hit this stage. The need to outdo and out beat my fellow men became my goal. I had to be on top; it is who I am. Who my father built me to be.

I refused to come in at the bottom.

“Beers?” Rigdon asked as we walked side by side toward my car.

I looked over at him and tilted my head to the side, only to make him laugh. “Yeah, I know.” He held his hands up and chuckled. “Girl and kid waiting at home. I got it.”

“I need to go fix my fuck up from last night,” I confessed.

“Lindsay’s been here less than twenty-four hours and you’ve already fucked up?” He was loving this shit.

“I may have made it sound like the only thing I wanted was Camden,” I said as I opened up my driver’s door. I didn’t miss his laughter.

“Listen, Zack,” I turned around to face him because by the tone of his voice, he was getting serious with me. “If I learned anything from my experience with Melissa, it was that time flies by entirely too fast, and one day you wake up and realize you didn’t take the time to enjoy what you had in front of you until it was too late. Don’t drag your feet; just tell her that you two need a fresh start, and all the shit from Alabama and even the Haven fucked up mess that followed needs to be left in the past. Focus on what you’ve got now.”

Rigdon met and fell in love with Melissa shortly after he joined the Navy. Within a year they were engaged. Two nights before the day they were to be married Melissa and her friend were killed in a head collision with a drunk driver.

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