Vetted: An Everyday Heroes World Novel (The Everyday Heroes World) by A.M. Williams & KB Worlds

Author:A.M. Williams & KB Worlds
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: KB Worlds, LLC
Published: 2021-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

AUGUST

“BRITAIN IS NICE,” Rich said as he joined me on the back porch the next morning. He handed me a cup of coffee before sitting next to me on the couch.

“She is,” I agreed, blowing lightly on the steaming cup before taking a tentative sip.

“I wonder why you never brought he around before,” Rich continued, making me pause and glance at him from the corner of my eye.

I took another sip of my coffee before saying, “You’ve got something on your mind, so say it.”

Rich was silent for several moments before saying, “I’ve already told you I think you need to confide in her. She’d get it, so I won’t say it again.”

“Thank God,” I muttered.

Rich grunted, telling me he’d heard what I’d said, but continued, “However, you really need to talk to her. I mean, really talk to her.”

“I have.”

“No, you haven’t. You’ve asked her how it is to be back and glossed over things with the military with her, but you haven’t talked to her.”

“I know she wants another full-time slot.”

Rich shifted, and I glanced at him to see he’d angled himself to face me more fully. “And what do you think about that?”

I shrugged one shoulder but said nothing.

“You can act nonchalant all you want, but I know you, baby brother. I know you don’t like the idea of her being in the military. And you need to tell her that and tell her why.”

“She knows about dad,” I said, blowing what he was saying off. She didn’t need to know the other reason, at least not yet. There was no need to bring that up unless I absolutely had to.

“Dad is only a small part of it and you know that,” Rich said flatly.

I’d looked away from him and into the backyard, but at his tone, I looked back at him and was surprised by what I saw. He was glaring at me and I could see him getting worked up.

“Rich—" I started, but he cut me off.

“You’ve spent years trying to deal with being a military brat and what happened to me. You’re to the point that even though I’m mostly over what happened, you still aren’t. And why is that? I get what happened impacted you deeply and you struggle with it. But, man, I’m fine. I’m adjusted. I don’t have issues with it much anymore because I’ve learned to cope and move on. Yet you continue to act like any minute is the minute I’m going to decide that I want to kill myself again. And that isn’t fucking cool.”

With those words, Rich stood, and I was left gaping after him.

I watched the door he’d disappeared through for several moments before I looked back at the backyard and swallowed thickly, raising my coffee mug to my mouth.

I paused with it halfway up because I realized I was shaking.

I cleared my throat and carefully set my mug down. What the fuck? Why was I shaking?

I tried to push the conversation we’d just had from my mind, but I couldn’t.

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