Saved from Vengeance (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha) (Blade and Arrow Security Book 5) by Gia Cobie & Operation Alpha

Author:Gia Cobie & Operation Alpha [Cobie, Gia & Alpha, Operation]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2024-03-12T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

FINN

There’s an old poem I remember from my high school English class.

My teacher loved it—Mrs. Miller had it on a big poster right over the door—about two roads diverging in a wood. I don’t remember a lot from high school, but I remember that poem.

It came back to me at different points throughout my life, when I was faced with two paths, and I had to decide which one to take.

Would I try to find a regular job after college, or would I take the risk and join the Army?

Would I keep the safe job in the local gym that I’d fallen into after being discharged from the Army, or would I take a chance to come work with Cole at his new company?

I think I made the right choices most of the time. Even though joining the Army, and later the Green Berets, wasn't easy and it came with some terrible memories, it also gave me my team. My friends. My family.

But now I’m at a new intersection, and I’m hesitating. I’m afraid—me, someone who’s faced some of the most terrifying situations—of making the wrong decision.

Up until a month ago, I thought being single was the best option. The safest. The most comfortable.

And then I met Hanna.

In the weeks we’ve spent together, she’s made me want more. But more means opening up, telling her everything, and leaving myself open to be deceived again.

While I’ve told her about lots of things—college, Blade and Arrow, my friends, even the pain of my mother leaving when I was fifteen—I’m still holding back. And Hanna deserves more than that. If I’m going to take the path forward with Hanna, I need to trust her completely.

So the choice is—tear down the last of my walls and take a chance on a real future with Hanna, or choose the safe route and keep her at a distance.

It doesn’t sound like a hard choice when I look at it that way.

I talked to Nora about it this morning after we finished our workouts. She mentioned that I was spending a lot of time with Hanna, which is an enormous understatement.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen Hanna every day, most days more than once. We have dinner and watch movies and cuddle on the couch, our kisses turning to everything short of sex. I come over for breakfast and she goes to the gym with me a few times a week and we’ve traveled to all the nearby parks and landmarks so she can take pictures.

“You really like her.” Nora made it a statement and not a question.

Trying for casual, I replied, “Yeah. How could I not? Hanna’s great.” Then I busied myself cleaning off the weight bench, spraying it down with disinfectant and wiping every inch of it clean.

Nora moved in front of me, her gaze penetrating. “But?” She gave me this practiced look, patient but persistent, the one that somehow always makes the person she’s questioning tell her everything.

“I don’t know if I’m good for her.

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