Keeping London by Ellie Wade

Author:Ellie Wade [Wade, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance
Publisher: Ellie Wade
Published: 2016-06-25T21:00:00+00:00

Back in my room after dinner, I’m thrilled when I see that London is online, and I Skype her.

“Oh my gosh!” Her beautiful face fills my laptop screen as she claps with excitement. “How are you? It’s so good to see you! Wow…you’re growing a beard. Ooh…you’re totally hot with facial hair. What are you up to? How’s Cooper? Are you staying safe? Tell me everything.”

This, right here, London’s beautiful innocence, is exactly what I needed after a day like today. After waking up to a bombing, almost getting shot on a run, watching someone die as I carried his bloody body to the hospital, and the nail in the coffin with the shitty food, this will definitely be going down as one of the worst days in my life. But looking at London’s big brown eyes that haven’t seen the cruelty in the world and her gorgeous smile that radiates naivety and love somehow makes it all better. She makes the horrible circumstances surrounding today bearable.

God, I love her.

“You asked so many questions that I forgot them all,” I kid.

“I’m sorry. I’m just so freaking excited to see you!” She grins wide. “How are you? Are you okay?” Worry clouds her cheerful demeanor.

“Yeah, I’m great,” I lie.

I know that London wants to have a one hundred percent honesty thing going on while I’m here. But that’s actually a horrible idea. The obvious reason is that I can’t tell her much of what happens here anyway, especially if it’s mission-related. Plus, I don’t see the value in telling her all the horrible stuff when there is nothing she can do to make it better, which, in turn, would upset her.

“Are you sure?” Her face tilts, as if she’s studying me on her computer screen, her eyes squinting in question.

“Yeah.” I force my smile to go wider. “Honestly, babe…I’m just a little tired, is all.”

She nods. “I can see that. You look tired. I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine. I’ll be heading to bed here shortly. No worries. Tell me, how are you?”

“Great. I’m heading to the airport in an hour. Georgia and I are flying into Kentucky to spend Christmas with our parents.”

That’s right. It’s Christmas Eve. I forgot, yet the second I woke up this morning, I remembered that it was steak and lobster day.

“That’s great. How long will you be there?”

“I’ll be back in Michigan on the twenty-ninth, so not that long. I wanted to return in time to do something with Paige for New Year’s. Actually, we’re thinking about flying somewhere. Probably somewhere in Cali, so Georgia can join us. This is her first New Year’s being twenty-one, so she can get into a real club. Anyway, I’m bringing my laptop to my parents’, of course, so we’ll be able to chat. We need to plan a time to Skype tomorrow. It is Christmas and all. Do you know your schedule?”

I think about my agenda for the next day. I’ll be free after dinner, so that’s about seven in the evening, which would be ten thirty in the morning for London.

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