The Lies That Save Us (The Broken Heart Series) by JL Redington

Author:JL Redington [Redington, JL]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-07-02T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The drive back to the house seemed longer than the drive out to the photo site. Alexa sat mostly in quiet contemplation, and it appeared to her Cayman was doing the same thing.

“Maybe it’s too soon to love again. Maybe I’m not ready yet.” She couldn’t help but smile at that, because her body sure seemed ready. It was her soul that didn’t want to trust or love or be loved. She thought she was stronger than she was when it came to her father. She had found that strength inside her, but going out to the desert today, she felt like she’d lost it, again. It seemed that’s how her life was now, this roller coaster of emotion. First she felt one way, then that was gone and she felt another way and then that was gone and she felt still another way. Her mind was a mess and she didn’t know how to fix it.

She knew she could lose it all in loving this man sitting in the car beside her, but was that because of the loss she felt from her fiancé? She couldn’t even bring herself to speak his name, hadn’t said it since he was sentenced to “life in prison without the possibility of parole”. She was certain not saying his name would make the pain go away, but it hadn’t.

Now, she wondered if she’d lost the independence and strength she had thought she’d found. She was too independent to lose herself in a man, what was she even thinking? Still, she wanted to lose herself in this man, she wanted him. Was that even healthy? And around and around she went.

“Hello?” Cayman was trying to get her attention.

“Oh, I’m sorry,” she started. “Were you talking to me?”

“Only for the last half hour,” he said with a laugh. “And here I thought you were listening so intently.”

“Yeah, I guess I’m a little distracted.” She gazed out the window. “What were you saying?”

“I was asking you if you ever played spy when you were a kid. Did you ever have one of those super cool spy rings, because boy, I sure did, and I loved my spy ring.” Cayman waxed a bit nostalgic in the memory.

“One day, when Sam was a baby, he swallowed it. They had to rush him to the doctor and see where it was. We had to watch his diaper for days to see if…well…if it came out, which it did. But somehow, no matter how my mom cleaned it, I couldn’t bring myself to play with it again.”

Alexa burst out laughing mid-story and the end of it, she couldn’t breath at all.

“Are you serious? Your little brother ate your spy ring and gave it back to you in his diaper?” Her laughter filled the car, and lightened her mood.

“I’ll have you to know, that was a pretty special toy to me. It’s what got me started on my current hobby of deciphering codes. I used to make up my own

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