Loving Justice (El Camino Real Book 2) by Hunter Sable

Author:Hunter, Sable [Hunter, Sable]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beau Coup Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-01-21T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Everything was the same and yet everything was different. He felt like he’d come home. “I can’t believe this.”

She took his thick wrists in her hands and tried to push him away. “I don’t think either one of us can believe it. Too much has happened and too much time has passed. I had no intention of telling you any of it, not right now.”

“Charlee, listen.” He put his hands on her face. “I woke up that day with one of those damn cluster headaches. There’s no telling what was on my mind, what I was thinking about. Since then I’ve learned that certain things can set them off, alcohol being one of them, also trauma or even certain smells. I am so sorry.”

She pulled out of his arms and started working around the camp. Kneeling on the ground, Charlee began to take out food items; sandwiches he’d packed and a thermos full of coffee. “You made love with me, yet you said her name.” He just didn’t understand the depth of her anguish.

“I have no explanation, no memory of it at all.” He protested. “What I can tell you is that I haven’t dreamed about Zelda for the last eight years.”

“Have you dated her in the last eight years?” She stood, confronting him.

“Once or twice,” he admitted, seemingly with reluctance. “We attended a few charity functions together. There was never anything more than that. Like I told you, Zelda had no desire to live in Bronco and my life is here.” Charlee shrugged. Knowing geography played a role in Justice’s decision over Zelda wasn’t exactly comforting.

“Let’s sit down and eat. Come on.” He spread blankets on the ground and situated the saddles so they could lean against them. “Tell me what happened exactly. We made love, you stayed with me all night, then what?”

Charlee stared at the fire, sipping her hot drink. “When I went home that morning, Curtiss met me. He knew I’d been at El Camino. All of the time we spent together, he’d always assumed there was something going on.” Her breathing hitched. “Seeing me coming from your house at daybreak with the same clothes I’d worn the day before just confirmed what he’d always suspected. He called me your whore and hit me.”

“Fuck!” Justice hated the fact that Charlee suffered.

“I told him it wasn’t like that, but what defense did I have? That morning, it was true. And the sad fact was that I’d always wanted you. Like the scripture says, I’d been committing that sin in my heart long before I committed it in real life.”

“It wasn’t a sin.”

Maybe not, Charlee thought, but she had sure been punished for it. Getting pregnant. Losing the baby.

Justice set down his cup, reaching for her hand. “The day you left, I was there.”

“What?” Charlee’s heart began to pound.

“I came to see you, you weren’t answering my calls. When I drove up, you were leaving with a man.”

This whole thing was sad. “Hampton Forbes, the lawyer who helped me.

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