Define Naughty by West Shannon

Author:West, Shannon [West, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Painted Hearts Publishing
Published: 2017-12-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Nick’s dreams were troubled that night. He was back at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, recovering from his wound in Iraq. It was there that Nick and Carter split up for good. Or so he’d thought at the time.

When Nick had first arrived at the sprawling, highly advanced hospital, he’d still been in critical condition, in real danger of losing his leg. When he was really bad, the nurses told him he sometimes called for a boy named Carter in his delirium. They asked him if Carter was a soldier he left behind in Afghanistan, because every time he called for him, he ended up crying in his sleep.

His mother visited him as often as she could, of course. While Nick was overseas, his father passed away from the cancer that had been eating away at him for such a long time. He’d asked to be cremated, and his mother urged Nick not even to come home. There was nothing he could do, and she told him his father would’ve wanted it that way. His mother moved to Florida to be near her sister. He’d heard nothing from Carter, but he still thought of him all the time, regretting the way they left it between them. Nick had to wonder why he hadn’t come to see him at the hospital. If Carter had been hurt, wild horses couldn’t have kept him away.

Did he know he was back and wounded, just like he’d warned him? After Nick knew he would keep his leg, he was almost glad he hadn’t come, afraid of what he might think if he saw his scars. Carter was so beautiful, so perfect—he wondered if Carter would turn away from the ugliness. Say I told you so. Say I warned you not to go. Nick was a cripple now. Would Carter feel only pity for him?

It was a few days before he was set to be released that Carter finally came to the hospital. Nick had just returned from therapy and his leg was still aching abominably from the torture his physical therapist called rehab. He’d been lying back resting on his bed, when he heard a little gasping sound from the doorway. He looked up to see Carter standing there, his face pale, his beautiful blue eyes staring in shock.

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