Fighting Back (Fighting For Love Book 5) by James Marysol

Author:James, Marysol [James, Marysol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Sports, medical, military, romantic suspense, sex, series
Published: 2015-12-20T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

One week later

Nick had never felt so weak, so vulnerable. Not ever, in the whole of his almost-thirty-five years on earth.

Oh, sure, since losing his leg he’d been weak and vulnerable, and he’d been so more times than he could count, or that he cared to think about. But what was going on here and now was a whole new level of weakness and vulnerability – and he fucking hated it. Hated it hard and deep and with everything that he had.

He stared down at his prosthetic, trying desperately to get a feel for it, trying to will it to feel natural on his body. Maisie had told him that he’d have to learn to see it as an extension of himself – but right now, all he saw was an alien object, something that didn’t fit and which sure as hell didn’t belong anywhere near his large, muscular body.

Fuck, he missed his leg right now. Loss rolled over him, crashed over him, threatened to take him down. He blinked back tears, determined to not lose his focus or his hope.

God, it was hard, though. Right at this moment, it almost felt impossible.

“Nick?”

He looked up at Adam, saw nothing but worry in those blue eyes.

“Yeah?” he replied, trying to look more together than he actually was.

“I’m ready when you are, man.” Adam shifted his massive weight on both feet, his arms hanging loose at his sides. “Take a step. I’m here.”

Nick nodded, but remained frozen in place, holding the parallel bars in a death grip. He’d been standing there for more than ten minutes now, just standing there, trying to work up the courage to take a step as one nightmare scenario after another played out in his head.

Every single one of the scenarios ended with him catapulting forward and landing flat on his face. In the worst ones, he broke his nose, knocked out a few teeth, knocked himself out cold. In none of them did he manage to take one step, and definitely in none of them did he walk the full length of the bars.

Maisie sat to one side, watching impassively. She hadn’t said a word the whole time that Nick had stood there silent and shaking. She’d just sat there, watching and waiting. She knew that the battle he was fighting inside himself was huge and it was intensely personal. Right now, Nick was struggling with Nick – with his fear and faith.

This was one battle that every single person waged alone, up there on that walking platform. Some of them retreated, came back to fight another day. And some plunged head-long into the fray, taking the chance that they’d be defeated and betrayed by their own bodies. Maisie was pretty sure that Nick was going to enter the arena – eventually.

Adam had also been nothing but patient with him: he’d been standing in front of Nick this whole time, as steady and still as a rock. Nick had asked him to be here

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