Looking For Love (Semper Fi, The Forever Faithful Series Book 2) by Stella Starling

Author:Stella Starling [Starling, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

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Zach

Zach woke up feeling like shit. The kind of hangover that he knew from experience would go from bad to skull-splitting if he so much as moved an eyelid. Scratch that. His skull was already splitting, and his entire body felt like it had been sent through the tumble cycle in a clothes dryer full of rocks… or maybe beaten with sticks.

He groaned, the sound a painful ricochet inside his own head.

“Zach? Are you awake?”

Micah’s whisper was almost too quiet to hear, but his voice gave Zach something to cling to that wasn’t pain. He could feel Micah’s hand in his, feel Micah’s touch on his face, stroking over his brow and calming some of the clamor.

He forced his eyes open, the light stabbing into his brain like a dagger.

“Hey, baby,” he rasped, his throat feeling raw. Micah looked wrecked. “What’s wrong?”

“I was worried about you,” Micah said, biting his lip as his eyes welled up with tears.

“About me?” Zach frowned… which fucking hurt. But he was the one who took care of Micah, Micah shouldn’t be worrying about him.

He closed his eyes again, trying to figure it out as he let Micah’s touch on his face soothe him. Heaven. Well, okay, “heaven” was probably taking it too far, given how horrendous every single part of him felt, but at least Micah’s touch was something… good.

Because there was also something bad, but Zach couldn’t remember what it was.

He kind of felt like he didn’t want to.

“You’ve been here since last night. Mam says it’s okay to take you home as soon as you can stay awake,” Micah said softly, which didn’t make sense. “But maybe you should try to sleep a little more first?”

Here? Zach cracked his eyes open again, this time managing to look at something more than just Micah. He was in a hospital.

That couldn’t be good.

“What happened?” he asked, gritting his teeth as he struggled to sit up.

Micah helped, and either Zach had suddenly gotten a hell of a lot weaker, or he hadn’t realized just how strong Micah was, because it definitely wasn’t just a courtesy.

He leaned heavily against Micah’s shoulder once he was upright, trying not to throw up from the effort of getting that far. Damn, he hadn’t felt this bad in longer than he could remember.

He must have really done something stupid.

Micah hesitated. “You had a surfing accident,” he said after a moment. “Do you remember it?”

Zach jammed the heels of his hands against his eyes in an effort to stop his head from pounding so damn hard, and tried.

“No,” he said after a moment. He did remember going to the beach, though. And he’d brought that bottle of Stagg with him. But then… nothing.

He didn’t remember surfing. But—

Shit shit shit shit.

All of a sudden, he did remember. His father was dead.

“Do you want to lay back down, Zach?”

“No,” Zach said, his voice feeling as thick as his head. The whole room felt thick. Stifling. He couldn’t handle it. “Is my truck here, baby? I need to get home.

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