Reaching Rachel by LL Collins

Author:LL Collins [Collins, LL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary
Publisher: LL Collins
Published: 2014-08-13T04:00:00+00:00

Rachel held her breath as Jessica stretched her shoulder, tears pricking behind her eyes. It had been over a month since she had been released from the hospital, and she was now in physical therapy three times a week to help her shoulder from the gunshot. Her broken arm had healed nicely and she was now only wearing a brace to support it.

She still hadn’t gone back to work, at her doctor’s and Devin’s insistence. She was still living with Devin, and still seeing Dr. Troast twice a week. Her nightmares were lessening in intensity, though she still had many moments of panic and fear. She was going to have to testify at Mark/Justin’s trial coming up soon, and that always kept the memories right underneath the surface. She was going to have to get up in front of an entire room of people, including him, and tell everyone what he did to her.

The prosecutor was hoping that they could find other victims of

Mark/Justin’s after Rachel was able to tell them names that he had said during her assault, and that the woman still in the coma in Alabama would wake up so they could nail him for life. All Rachel wanted to do was forget that he ever existed.

Her parents had gone back home after Christmas, reassured that Rachel was in good hands with Devin. And oh, was she ever. They had had a great Christmas, quiet but important for them as a couple. He still hadn’t made love to her, and it was killing her. Most of the time, however, they spent getting to know each other again, and he still spent a majority of his time being her guardian. He was busy at work; after he had gone back he had practically been working around the clock on some crazy cases, none of which he could even tell her about. The one thing they still didn’t talk about was the one thing she knew he wanted to know the most. She was taking advantage of the fact that he was too afraid of her mental state to bring it up, and she knew it. She wished she could ignore that they needed to have that conversation at all.

“You okay?” Jessica asked, noticing the grimace on Rachel’s face. Sweat popped out on her forehead as she stretched her shoulder past her comfortable point. “Stop holding your breath.”

Rachel blew out her breath, concentrating on exhaling instead of the pain radiating throughout her shoulder. “That hurts like hell.”

“No pain, no gain,” Jessica joked. “You’ve made a lot of progress just this week. Keep doing your at-home exercises. Has Devin been helping you?”

“I wish he would help me with another kind of exercise,” Rachel groaned, rotating her arm back and forth.

Jessica laughed. “Please tell me he has a hot brother.”

Rachel sat up, readjusting her ponytail. “Nope. No such luck. He has three sisters.”

Jessica scoffed. “Seriously. No wonder he’s such a good boyfriend. He grew up with girls to teach him. Ok, I’ll see you on Friday.

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