Five Days Grace (The McRae Series, Book 4- Grace) by Hill Teresa

Author:Hill, Teresa [Hill, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2012-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

So, he'd told her his sad story, Aidan thought as he walked around the lake. She hadn't freaked out or anything. She'd been remarkably calm and shed a few tears, but shit, so had he. He felt... He wouldn't say better for getting it out, but he'd done it.

He'd had to talk about it in his debriefing and mandatory counseling sessions, but aside from that, Grace was the first person he'd told. He'd even told his whole family the mission was classified, and he couldn't talk about it. The first part was true. It was classified, but there was nothing he'd said to Grace that was considered classified.

He hadn't meant to tell her nearly as much as he had, but she'd seemed so sincere, so determined to know and even to try to make it easy for him. Taking him in her arms that way and pressing his face against her so he wouldn't even have to look at her. Saying the words herself, as many of them as she knew. He marveled at her, being here and wanting so much to help him.

Still, he wasn't sure what he'd find once he got back to the cabin.

Which wasn't going to be long, because his hip hurt like a bitch. God, he was tired of his body not being able to do what he was used to doing. Not being able to do the simplest of things, like walk a few miles at a time without protest and pain, or run. He wanted so much to run. He'd always been in great shape. The Navy demanded it.

Not anymore.

But his body was still buzzing with energy, the kind that made him need to move to quiet his head, calm himself down.

The boat, he decided. There was an old rowboat down at the dock in front of the cabin. He'd take it out again. The hip would stand that better, and he could still work up a sweat. He made his way back to the cabin and found her on the phone, looking guilty. One glance, and he knew she'd bawled her eyes out. Because of him. Obviously, she'd taken the whole story harder than he thought.

"Em, I've got to go. Thanks. For everything." She got off the phone and then gave Aidan a wary smile. "I was... kind of... counting on you to be gone longer."

"I got tired of walking," he said, then felt bad about even the little lie. He'd promised to tell her the truth. "No, dammit, that's not it. I've walked too much already today. My hip hurts. There's a rowboat down by the dock. I was going to take the boat out instead."

Aidan wanted to take her in his arms, to tell her not to cry over him, that he didn't want that at all, never wanted to make her cry for any reason. But before he could, she started apologizing.

"I'm so sorry. I swore to myself I wouldn't let you catch me like this, especially doing the ugly cry.

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