Learning To Live (Eternal Flames Book 11) by Cree Storm & Maggie Walsh
Author:Cree Storm & Maggie Walsh [Storm, Cree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-06T05:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER 10
The room grew deathly quiet. Rory’s gut twisted and convulsed, and he feared he would throw up right there. He kept his gaze on Wade, but he could feel all eyes on him. Rory was afraid to look around and see the pity in everyone’s eyes. Well, maybe not everyone, because he knew that Donny, Snake, and Ozcog didn’t feel that way, but the other guys and Savage were a different story.
Even though they had only worked together for the past few years, those years were full of stress and some harrowing times. Things that brought people together and formed a bond. A bond of brotherhood that Rory loved having in his life, and the thought that these men who he considered brothers would pity him in any way, made him want to run from his life and never come back.
But his biggest fear was how his actual brother, Wade, would look at him now. He had never been big and tough like Wade. Even when they were kids growing up, Rory had been smaller than the other kids and Wade had always been the protective big brother. Something that made Rory proud when he was young, but if he were being honest, he kind of resented it as he got older.
With Wade always fighting his battles for him and chasing away the bullies, Rory felt like everyone thought of him as a pathetic weakling. But worse than that, he thought Wade saw him that way too. When Wade left to join the military when he was eighteen, Rory had been heartbroken. His first fear was who would be there to protect him and help him now. That was quickly followed by beating himself up over being weak and needing his big brother to protect him in the first place. Then there was the fear that Wade would never make it home except in a box, draped with the flag.
Rory had sucked it up and put on a brave face, telling Wade how proud he was of him, and he was, but he never let Wade see the fear that raged inside him. It was the last thing Wade needed right before he went off to become a soldier and put his life on the line for their right to live free. So Rory stuffed his feelings deep and put on a happy face, then made sure to always keep that positive front when dealing with Wade.
In every letter or email they sent and the few times he and Wade Skyped while he was serving, and the even fewer times Wade had come home on leave, Rory made sure to always be brave for his brother, so Wade didn’t have anything to worry about back home. God knows his brother didn’t need that distraction in a war zone or out on a SEAL’s mission.
So when he had been raped, he sure as hell didn’t say a damn word to Wade, or even give away that something was wrong. Through
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