For the Love of a Thug (Alpha Male Taboo Hood Romance) (Multicultural Urban Contemporary Short Stories) by Fiona Knighitngale

Author:Fiona Knighitngale [Knighitngale, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies, Short Stories, United States, African American, Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Single Authors
Amazon: B0134X6RME
Published: 2015-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

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My Secret SEAL Protector

I think it would be stupid of me to pretend like I can explain that grief to you. That raw, painful feeling of losing the person you’ve been in love with for years.

I spent months after Jake’s death waiting for the memories off him to drift out of my life, even as I tried to hold on to them. The lingering scent of his skin on his clothes, which I held to my nose and inhaled until they were all but gone. Notes he’d made that had ended up lost down the back of desks and drawers, drifting out months and months later. The way I would wake up in bed, expecting him there, only to find him gone. You can imagine it, sure, but it’s hard to actually understand how grief of that level feels, unless you’ve been through it.

And I suppose the worst part was that I should have been somewhat prepared for it. It wasn’t like Jake worked in an office building or a bank- he was stationed in the Middle East with his regiment. With the Navy SEALs, no less. He was a Special Forces soldier, an elite member of an elite squad who usually seemed invincible to me. His job went hand-in-hand with danger, and I had always known, somewhere, at the back of my head, that he could be dead at that very moment and I wouldn’t know anything about it. But those were the kind of thoughts I pushed to the back of my head, because they were far too painful and tiresome to expend all my energy on. I would just happily count down the days till he came home on the calendar, and then we’d be together again and I wouldn’t have to think about worrying any more.

We’d met eight years previously, when we were both fresh out of high school, a couple of fresh-faced teenagers heading to the big city at the same time. We ended up in Chicago- me for a degree in journalism, him for basic training, and met at a bar before our respective commitments began. While everyone else around us had these amazing flings and romantic adventures, we were too busy being wrapped up in our love for each other to notice. We moved in, and got engaged just before he was deployed for the first time. For the rebellious teenager I was, I’d delighted my traditional mother by choosing to marry a nice, mid-Western soldier. We bought a small home just outside the city, and I spent the time that he was away turning the place into a perfect love-nest for the two of us. As I pursued my career at local art zines, we would Skype and send letters to each other all the time. It just made my heart grow needier for him, and when he arrived back and promised to marry me before he left again, I couldn’t have been happier.

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