Homefront Hero by Allie Pleiter

Author:Allie Pleiter
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2012-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“You’d make a poor spy.”

John, on the other hand, would make a very good spy, for while his voice sounded tired, nothing of the day’s outcome showed on his face. There was no hope of hiding what she was doing, and she found she didn’t really want to keep her concern a secret. “How was the testing?”

He eased himself down beside her, slowly, the way he did when his leg pained him most. “I don’t know,” he said. “I really don’t know. It could go either way, I suppose. I met some of the standards, came close enough in three more that Madison could sign the orders today—if he chose to.”

“That’s good, isn’t it?” She noticed his fist was clenched around the arm of the bench.

“I would rather have left him no room to choose.”

That was John, always needing the world to turn on his own terms. No wonder his brush with mortality had rattled him so. “How do you feel about the results?”

“You mean other than the wrenching pain and the frustration?” He attempted a smile—the false one he applied to make light of his pain—and tapped his cane against the boot of his good leg. “I think Madison will send me off.”

He said it so easily, as if he’d been asked to take the hallway on the left instead of the right. The part of her that tried to trust God with today’s outcome fell prey to a surge of panic. He might really go back. “You do?” She nearly gulped it.

“Mostly because I told him I’d make his life a living nightmare if he kept me. It isn’t wise to cross a Gallows, you know.” The momentary dark flash in his eyes showed John for the warrior he was. It was probably a very dangerous thing indeed to wake the ire of such a man. Just as quickly, the darkness receded and he raised an amused eyebrow. “And you know I asked you not to come here.”

“You asked me not to attend your testing and I did not. And, well, I thought I’d placed myself where you couldn’t see me.”

John looked as pleased to hear this as she was embarrassed to admit she couldn’t stay away. “Had Dr. Madison not asked me to bend to the left, I wouldn’t have. As it was, I happened to look up at just the right moment to see where you were…and what you were doing.”

He knew! Leanne felt as if she were glass, her emotions laid plain to his insistent eyes.

“Isn’t God everywhere? Still you had to be here, watching over me in the gymnasium?” His eyes fairly glowed. It wasn’t fair that he was so handsome at this moment when she felt so vulnerable.

She wouldn’t answer his question. He wasn’t really seeking an answer in any case. Leanne knew exactly what he was doing, peeling away her excuses for needing to be here, forcing her to admit what they both already knew.

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