Loving the Storm by Linda Seed

Author:Linda Seed [Seed, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Linda Seed
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Liam hadn’t meant to say all that stuff about Redmond. In fact, he found that the less he thought about Redmond, the easier life was. But he’d started talking, and it had just come out.

The fact was, he was still raw with grief, and the more he could push it down and think about other things, the easier it was to get through every day, doing his job and living his life.

During the first year or so after Redmond had died, Liam had sometimes sneaked into his uncle’s room just to sit, to feel the essence of the man in the space where he’d lived for so long.

But Sandra had finally packed up Redmond’s room, giving some of his things to Drew and putting the rest into boxes that were now stored in the garage.

After that, Liam had sometimes gone to visit with Redmond’s horse, Abby, when he’d wanted to feel close to the man. But Abby, who’d been growing old, had passed on about a year before. Now, the only place he could go was the cemetery.

He hadn’t been up to the cemetery in a while, but talking to Aria about Redmond had stirred something up in him again. He waited until he had to go into town on an errand—that way, he wouldn’t have to explain himself—and drove up to the graveyard at the top of Bridge Street, with its headstones and stone benches amid groves of trees, quiet except for the rustle of the breeze through the leaves.

Liam was pretty sure he was the only one in the family who still came up here. It wasn’t that the others didn’t care, or didn’t miss Redmond. But they’d moved on. If they knew how he still felt, how the loss of his uncle still tore at him, then the others would wonder why he hadn’t gotten past the grief as easily as they had. After all, Redmond was his uncle. It wasn’t like losing a father.

Except for Liam, it was exactly like losing a father.

Liam had Orin, of course, and Orin had been a solid and reliable father, as steady as the earth itself. But Liam had always suspected that he was his father’s third favorite son. Orin never would have said as much, but Liam could feel it. Ryan was the kind, principled, salt-of-the-earth one. Colin was the smart one.

And Liam was the other one.

Hell, if Liam were to talk to a therapist about it—which he’d never done and would never do—he would probably find out that he’d adopted the role of the family’s hot-tempered lunkhead because it was the only part that hadn’t already been cast. And maybe it had seemed like the only way to get his father’s attention.

But it hadn’t worked—not really. Orin had been busy with the ranch and with his other children, and Liam had felt angry and left out.

Redmond must have spotted that, because he’d stepped in where Orin had left off. Redmond had spent time with Liam one on one when Orin either hadn’t had the time or the interest.

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