Flee the Night by Susan May Warren

Author:Susan May Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
ISBN: 9781414332666
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2005-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

“I had cancer.” It still hurt to say it aloud. Like it might be a weakness instead of an invasion. Micah had spent the first months feeling angry at himself for letting it happen. As if some-how he might have prevented the malignant cells from growing inside his stomach, spreading to his lung, to his liver. But as chemotherapy and radiation took hold, turned him inside out, writhed him with agony, he let himself be a victim. Let himself feel both pity and pain. At least, in the privacy of his home.

No one but his parents and his brother, Joey, knew the emotional hits he took. And saying it to Lacey now felt like taking a scalpel to his chest all over again. He even winced.

Her mouth cracked open. Then, “I’m sorry.” And she sounded wounded for him.

It made him yearn for her more, as if he wasn’t already longing to erase seven years of accusations, tunnel for the truth, and start all over again. If he hoped to start all over again, he’d have to go back in time to the night of her senior prom when he’d let fear manhandle him and sacrifice his heart. But yesterdays couldn’t be recaptured. Not now, after the cancer had ravaged his future.

“I’m clean, at least I was at my last checkup. They took out a lung and part of my stomach and liver. But I beat it. I hope.”

She touched his arm, and he flinched. “But you’re going to be okay?”

Was he? Physically, perhaps. But emotionally, he still felt annihilated. Not by what had happened but by what he could never have. A child. The aggressive cancer treatment had stolen from him a legacy. The next generation. Someone in his likeness to love and cherish and be the kind of father his had been to him. There were times, especially in the past six months of living near Joe and his family, that this pain sliced so deep, he sometimes felt like curling into a ball and howling. “Yeah, I’m okay.”

“I wish I’d known. I’d have figured out a way to see you.”

He glanced at her, and the sorrow on her expression and in her radiant eyes made him believe her. “I probably would have liked that, even if I didn’t tell you.”

She chuckled. “Yeah, you might have cuffed me with your IV and screamed for security.”

His smile dimmed. “Probably. And I would have been wrong.” He touched her cheek. “I’m sorry I didn’t believe you.”

She shrugged, but his apology glistened in his eyes. “So, did you find out where Coward’s Hollow is?”

“Mark Twain National Forest in southern Missouri.”

She nodded, put her feet up on the dash, and leaned her head back. “We have a long drive ahead. Do you want to stop somewhere?”

He put both hands on the wheel, then looked at his speedometer. “No. We’ll head to the hotel where my team is waiting. You’re going to have Emily back in your arms by tomorrow night.”

“If the NSA doesn’t track me down first.

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