Dream of Her Heart by Shanna Hatfield

Author:Shanna Hatfield [Hatfield, Shanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Even though he couldn’t see, Zane had learned many details about the fellow occupants of room seven and the hospital staff he interacted with each day by using his ability to listen.

Sarge, in the bed next to his, was a lifelong military man who’d fought in the Great War. The man was crusty and slightly bitter, but Zane could sense him healing more than just physically. The man had told him about losing a hand to a grenade an eighteen-year-old newbie had accidentally pulled the pin on and set off. When Sarge was ready to leave, he had a choice of retiring from the military or going to a base in Washington where he could still train enlistees.

On the other side of Sarge, closest to the door, was Jimmy. The private seemed about as happy and carefree as anyone could be, but Zane knew from Billie’s letters the young man had lost both his legs. At one time she’d worried about the boy giving up his will to live. As he listened to Jimmy joke and tease the other patients, he knew it was because of the work Billie had done.

Being around her every day was both torturous and heavenly. He loved listening to her voice, hearing her laughter, picturing her smile. He could almost feel her presence before she set foot in the room. By now, he knew her footsteps, and, of course, he recognized her fragrance.

The moment she stepped into the room, the atmosphere changed, as though every single man there revered and respected her. Truthfully, it was more than that, but Zane couldn’t even put to words what that feeling encompassed.

All he knew was that Billie’s presence brought a lightness and brightness to these men they otherwise wouldn’t know. Billie was an excellent nurse, highly skilled and expertly trained, but it went far beyond her ability to help them heal physically. It rested in her ability to encourage the men, make them believe they could get better, be better.

Zane hated being blind. Hated being confined to his bed or at the mercy of someone to lead him around like a dog, but he had no choice in the matter. Unlike Rock who’d walked himself out of the hospital and to a better outcome for his life, Zane couldn’t even do that much.

Rock had been to see him three times in the past two weeks, and he was grateful for his friend’s presence.

When he’d come yesterday, Rock had brought him a few treats, and a wooden puzzle he could put together by feeling the tabs and slots as they slid into place. The puzzle at least gave him something challenging to do during hours of boredom, besides brood about his mistakes and regret his past.

He’d tried to pry more detail out of Rock about his wife, but the man had changed the subject quite abruptly. He didn’t know if Rock was already regretting his marriage, or what the problem could be. Had Rock made a hasty decision

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