Healing Home by J. M. Madden

Author:J. M. Madden [Madden, J. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Lincoln didn’t like thinking about his mom and dad and their fucked up relationship. Over the years he’d kind of just pushed it to the back of his mind. He attributed at least part of his relationship issues to them. In all the years they’d been together, he’d never seen them actually work out a problem by talking. There had always been ultimatums and threats, and storming through the house. They had been the perfect example of what not to do during an argument. More often than not his dad would walk out the door, even in negative temperatures, to get away from his anxiety-ridden mother. His dad had been a quiet, stalwart kind of guy, willing to hike into dangerous temperatures to save stranded hikers, but personal confrontation always put him off. Link remembered him going out the door with his big brown pack and broad-rimmed hat several times. Only later did he realize that his dad would rather camp in the cold than stay in the house with their mother.

It had seemed like a natural step to join the military when he got out of high school. There was nothing else to do in their small town and Lincoln was desperately anxious to get the fuck away from his mother’s irrational ramblings. College didn’t appeal to him. By that time his dad was gone and Nate was entering high school. Lincoln assumed he felt bad when he left Nate behind, but at the time he was too high on his own dreams to give him much thought.

Getting through BUDS and establishing himself in a team took all of his attention for a long time. He and Nate talked, but they hadn’t been close. His teammates became more like brothers to him than his own blood relation. And through them he’d learned more about relationships than from anyone else. Justin Black, his lieutenant, had been with his current wife for more than twenty years, longer than Link could even imagine being with one person. Through all the deployments, Mary Black had stayed strong, raising three kids alone for the most part.

That reminded him; he needed to call and check in on his buddy. With BB here he’d been a little distracted.

Looking through the garage window, he watched her sit on his back porch with her dog. Frankie lapped up the attention, almost literally, and looked up at her mistress adoringly.

Did he look at her like that? If his buddies were here, or, God-forbid, some of the wives, they would absolutely tell him he was mooning over the woman. And he had no defense.

Lincoln looked at the truck he’d inherited. There was a lot of bad juju around it, but maybe if he thought about only the good parts…well, that would take a while to sort out.

His phone buzzed in his pocket.

Where the fuck are you?

Snorting, he shook his head as he typed in a response to Black. Home. Where are you?

Mary just sprung me from Balboa and I’m heading home.

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