Keep Breathing (Fighting For Tomorrow Book 1) by Kerry Taylor

Author:Kerry Taylor [Taylor, Kerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

ALEKS

“Kurwa mać!” I cursed in Polish as I slammed my laptop closed. I had a ton of work to do, but I couldn’t focus on it. I was too worried about Evie. She had gotten back from shopping with Harris and Kailan about an hour ago, and she had looked exhausted and wrung out. She was so thin and fragile looking to start with, then Kailan said she’d had a panic attack in the store. It was hard not to worry about her. I figured she brought out the protective instincts of anyone with a heart. It was those big eyes. They looked so innocent. They pulled me closer and gave me this driving need to keep her safe.

It wasn’t just me either. I had seen the way the others looked at her. Watched her. We had known her for less than a day and she had pulled us all in. It was her strength too. She tried so hard to be strong, and to reassure us she was alright when she so obviously wasn’t. We recognized ourselves in her and I guess that made us want to protect her the way we were unable to protect ourselves. We saw that need to fight; to survive, that we had all been through, in her.

“Is she alright?” Kailan asked, pulling me from my thoughts. I looked up and found Harris walking into the kitchen. He looked exhausted and stressed, and I knew it couldn’t be easy for him – seeing a woman he cared for so much, going through such pain and fear. I barely knew her, and it was killing me.

“She’s sleeping. She was exhausted by the time she stopped yelling at me for buying so much from the store,” he laughed.

“Shouldn’t you stay with her? What if she has a nightmare again?” I asked with concern. In all of my time overseas I had never seen terror like I had seen in Evie’s face, when she woke screaming, the day before. I would hear her shrill, tortured screams for the rest of my life.

“I stayed with her until she dropped off. I’m hoping it will help to keep the nightmares at bay,” he explained.

“What happened at the store? A panic attack?” I asked.

“I think so. She said loud noises aren’t good. The alarm triggered her. She was curled up with her hands over her ears when I went in. I tried to talk to her, but it was like she was gone. I touched her and she freaked out,” he explained.

“We need to be more careful where we take her, and we need to keep things quiet around here,” Kailan said, and we both nodded.

“She…she was in her underwear when I went in and I…I saw her scars,” Harris went on, each word seeming to pain him.

“Scars?”

“She has a lot. They weren’t there before. It has to be what that fucker did to her,” Harris growled.

“What kind of scars?” I asked, swallowing the huge lump forming in my throat.

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