Scarred Beginnings by Jackie Williams

Author:Jackie Williams [Williams, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Military, Romance, Thrillers
Amazon: B00KMUNAGE
Published: 2014-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

David looked around at the sumptuous bathroom suite. He ignored the sunken bath and wheeled himself into the shower area. There was a moveable seat on a hinge fashioned within the tiles and he slid from his chair onto it. He swung himself round into the cubicle, adjusted the faucet and then sat under the hot spray for a few minutes before he began soaping up.

He rubbed bubbles over his shoulders and massaged the joints. He really had slammed into the water on the first run down the wire. He could feel the tension in his tendons and he wished that it could have been Geraldine massaging the tightness from his body.

He could still feel the wrenching in his lower back too. He leaned forwards and rubbed as well as he could. It wasn’t the same; he needed to lie down and let someone with a bit of knowledge, someone with tender hands and deep green eyes, give him a really good massage. He snorted at himself. He hadn’t realized how much he had assumed. In his mind he had never considered that Geraldine wouldn’t be at the château waiting for him when he arrived. He bit back a grim laugh at his own stupidity. She obviously had a life outside of him and the château. He’d just been being so self centred that he had forgotten it.

He leaned his head back against the tiles and soaked up the heat from the water. The spray was heavenly and he let it beat down onto his chest, relaxing him as the warmth spread through his body.

He shampooed his hair and rinsed, turned the shower off and towelled down while still sitting on the seat. He leaned out of the shower and lay another towel on the seat of the chair then manoeuvred himself back into it.

By the time he was dry and dressed again he had been far longer than the half an hour he had told his sister. He sighed deeply. Everything took so much more effort. All the extra drying and attention to his legs took up major time but couldn’t be rushed. If the skin failed over the bottoms of his amputations he would be in serious trouble. It was bad enough having his legs removed to above his knees, any higher and he’d need a different fitting on his prosthetics, one that straddled his hips. He couldn’t face the thought of going through all the practice and physiotherapy again. Every day had been like climbing an extremely high mountain made of very fine sand.

For a moment his mind swept back to the day the boy had blown up in front of his very eyes. The bomb around the youngster’s waist had probably been set off by remote control giving him no choice whatsoever. Poor kid! It was a vile thing to do to a child. The cowards who had wrapped that belt around the boy’s waist should be rotting in hell. The lad had been terrified, forced into doing it.

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