The Complete Groupie Trilogy by Ginger Voight

Author:Ginger Voight [Voight, Ginger]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B00BAD3058
Published: 2013-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

October 10, 2010. Los Angeles.

Andy

The house was darkened when Andy got back to Malibu. She made her way through the quiet living room and kitchen toward the deck, where Graham sat in his wheelchair staring into the ocean. She dropped her purse on the counter and headed outside.

“I’m home,” she said unnecessarily as she walked over to where he sat. “Where’s Maggie?”

He didn’t look at her. “I gave her the night off. She went to see a movie.”

“Are you okay?” Andy immediately wanted to know. He shouldn’t have been left alone and it really surprised her Maggie had left her post. She’d been at his side for months.

“I’m fine,” was Graham’s stoic response. He finally turned his eyes to her. “We hit a milestone today.”

“Oh? What was that?”

He said nothing as he stared deep into her eyes. She watched in amazement as he placed each hand on either handlebar of his chair. She watched as slowly and with great effort he lifted himself up into a standing position.

Her mouth dropped open. He was not standing fully on his own feet but his lower body was finally starting to support his weight. It was something she knew Maggie had been pushing for weeks once she knew he felt pressure on the bottoms of his feet. She had him try to stand using bars to stabilize himself, but he’d always fallen.

Now he stood, trembling from the strain, looking at her with a determination that took her breath away. “Graham,” she whispered as she ran towards him just as he flopped back down in the chair. There were tears in her eyes as she threw her arms around his neck. A milestone indeed!

He didn’t embrace her. In fact he was rigid in her arms. “I guess I don’t have to ask where you’ve been,” he said.

“Graham,” she started as she pulled away.

“His first day back and you go running. Nothing has changed, has it?”

She knelt in front of the chair and stared up at him. “He needed me,” she said simply.

He nodded. He wanted to scream that he needed her too but he didn’t say a word. The fact was he didn’t want to need her anymore. He wanted to go back to being her hero – the one who would move mountains to make her happy.

His standing on his own two legs, however briefly, would someday give him the ability to come back into her life and fight for her heart for real.

Until then he would hold his tongue. He hated when she looked at him like he was a child who needed her care.

He was a man who wanted her love. And one day, one day very soon, he would show her that.

He spun the chair away and rolled back into the house towards his room. He wanted to be alone with his fantasies of when she’d come to him, recognizing him for the best man in her life, and making her final choice at last.

Andy let him go without a fuss.

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