Mine to Protect by Sarah J. Brooks

Author:Sarah J. Brooks [Brooks, Sarah J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Rose collapsed on her couch when she got home on Monday evening. Her second Monday had been worse than her first. Although, she did get informed that she would be second chair on her first case, so that was something good. Not much seemed to be going right for her, and Rose was certain that she was making constant mistakes in all that she was doing.

It was already almost ten o’clock, and Rose had plans to shower and then sleep. There wasn’t much else she could do on weeknights since she had been working so late. But the truth was, she liked staying busy so she didn’t have to think about the rest of her life.

Staying busy was just one more way she distracted herself from her emotions. She knew it was a distraction and was perfectly fine with it. Emotions were overrated, and people who told Rose that she needed to show her emotions more often didn’t know what they were talking about.

Rose didn’t have the sweet kind emotions anymore, and all she felt was sadness and anger. No one needed to hear about that sadness and anger. Sure, they told her they wanted her to share what she was feeling, but Rose knew that none of them meant that. Emotions weren’t that easy for people to deal with. Especially when those emotions revolved around death and grief.

No, Rose knew better. She had to keep herself busy with work and life so that none of her time or energy could seep back into thinking about what she had lost. Her husband and the life she had hoped for were gone, and no amount of sharing her emotions was ever going to bring him back. Rose wanted to numb out her emotions as much as possible so she could move forward with her life. It wasn’t how the therapists would have told her to move forward, but it was what was working for Rose, and that was all that mattered.

When there was a knock at the door, Rose couldn’t imagine who it could be. Her friends all worked just as much as she did, so there was no possible way they would just be stopping by. It could be Noah, they had both been caught hugging in his office by Elaine, but nothing seemed to come of that since Elaine thought it was because Rose was distraught over the other people in the office thinking she was a bitch.

She reluctantly got up and looked through the peephole before opening the door. She always looked out the peephole before opening it, partly out of curiosity of who was there, but partly to take more time before opening the door. Usually, she wasn’t all that excited to have visitors, and if she didn’t want to see someone, she would just slide away from the door and pretend that she wasn’t home.

“Bronx, what are you doing here?” she said before she had even opened the door.

When she finally got the locks off and swung the door open, Bronx didn’t wait for her to invite him in; instead, he just walked in.

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