Lethal in a Kilt (Hot Scots Book 7) by Anna Durand

Author:Anna Durand [Durand, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, romantic comedy, second chances
Publisher: Jacobsville Books
Published: 2020-02-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Serena

Tell him my secrets. His request sounded like a no-brainer—I didn't have secrets, I didn't like them—but I hesitated on the verge of saying so. Did I keep certain truths to myself? Did I keep them even from myself? What Keely had told me the other day, about me being afraid of liking Logan, had been festering in my mind ever since. Maybe I was afraid of this whatever-it-was between us, and maybe I'd led him to believe certain things that weren't precisely true. Maybe I'd kept secrets from him because I couldn't admit to the real issue.

I was afraid, just like he was.

"You must think I'm a hypocrite," I said. "I've told you I don't like secrets and basically chastised you for keeping stuff from me. Yet I've been doing the same thing."

"Have you?" he said in a casual tone, like he didn't know I had done that. "I suppose we've both been hiding things from each other."

"But you shared your secrets, the ones you won't get executed for telling me." I drew my knees up to my chest and locked my arms around them. "It's time I confessed."

He shifted position, angling his body toward me so we faced each other, but he said nothing. He simply waited for me to start talking.

Though he gazed at me with a patient, almost tender, expression, it took me a minute to muster the confidence to speak.

"I never really hated you, Logan," I said. "But I've known from the start what you've done in your past. Not the details, obviously. Your cousins and Keely told me you'd been a spy and what you'd done for Keely and Evan last year. I didn't know until recently, when Isla told me, that you'd also been in the army."

"Does that make a difference?"

"It shouldn't, but for me it does." I shut my eyes for a couple seconds, biting down on my upper lip. Then I met his beautiful gaze. "I didn't want to get involved with another military man. You remind me of Rob, my husband, in some ways because he wanted to serve his country and protect the world from bad guys. Every time he came home, he seemed a little more different, a little more closed off."

"He was different, I'm sure. My family would tell you the same thing about me. It can be hard to readjust to home life after being on edge constantly for so long."

"I get that, I do. But after his third tour in Iraq, I begged him to get out of the army. He wouldn't do it." I shook my head, remembering those days. "He went back for another tour. Three days before he was supposed to come home, he was killed. Rob survived four tours, a total of more than five years in Iraq, without any serious injuries until the very end. For more than half of our marriage, he was gone. He hated the violence and bloodshed, but he kept going back for more. That has to mean he liked the danger, right? Why else wouldn't he quit?"

"Nothing is ever that simple.

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