With This Pledge (Windswept Bay Book 8) by Debra Clopton

Author:Debra Clopton [Clopton, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Windswept Bay Book 8
Publisher: DCP Publishing
Published: 2017-05-08T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

After Kelsey left, Max set his hammer down, and then hopped over to the open window and eased himself down onto the windowsill. He grunted with the pain. He had almost decided not to have the surgery but there was a lot messed up in there and the doctors had advised that he go through with it now and not wait. His knee was so shredded the doctors were worried that he would never have a hundred percent recovery. Even after surgery, he could have stability issues. These doctors wondered why the prior doctors who’d looked at his knee right after the mission had not done surgery immediately.

He hadn’t lost a limb or his life, so he should be grateful. And he was. He just had to get over his shock and accept that life as he’d known it was over and it was time to plan a new future.

He stood and reached for the cane that he had been using and then walked slowly out the side entrance of the house and sank to the seat of his all-terrain vehicle. The only way he’d managed to get up the hill was using his ATV. Now he felt guilty that he hadn’t offered to take Kelsey back to her truck but he hadn’t wanted her to feel any worse than she probably already did. She was already worried that she’d made his injury worse. If she had seen him hobbling around, she would be horrified. He would not put that on her.

He drove down the hill and Charlotte trotted beside the vehicle. He parked right outside his bungalow and he moved straight from the ATV to his truck. There was no sense wasting any more time. It was time to go see his family. Time to admit that he had a problem.

Time to let them know that he would not have their pity. It was already over and done and time to move on.

He stopped by the police station first, spotting Levi’s SUV and Jillian’s husband Ryan’s too. He’d been an undercover cop for years and had had to give it up, so in some respects he’d been through what Max was going through. Only, Ryan had been ready for a change.

Max knew Ryan was very happy and they were expecting a baby soon.

He needed to adjust like that; he knew he was going to have to try to adjust like Ryan. He got out of his seat and grabbed his cane. He needed to get a crutch and after he told his family, he would probably go pick one up. There was no need to try to hide it now and he didn’t know whether he could make it a week till surgery without one.

“Hey, brother.” Levi looked surprised when he saw the cane. “What is that?”

Ryan put down his pen. “Did you hurt yourself?”

“Well, not exactly. I’ve been hurt since I got back from my last mission. I was able to hide it until I jumped out of the truck to help Kelsey last week.

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