Aaron by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773361482
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2019-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Instead of tiring him out, the swimming invigorated him. Aaron’s back muscles were responding even better than expected. It had taken a lot to press them into service, but now, even though he was shaky at the edge of the pool, he felt damned good.

Staring down at his stump as it hung over the edge, he realized he had so much to be grateful for. For some reason, that deadly cycle of his big ball of anger and self-pity over the last few months was easing.

He was glad those two emotions were not who he was. He wasn’t sure what was different now, but something had shifted. Then he realized it wasn’t about who he wanted to be but was about his brother—seeing his brother and realizing Levi had believed his story. That Levi would make some inquiries on Aaron’s behalf made all the difference. As if Aaron could stand taller, stand straighter, as if finally his words were deemed the truth by somebody whose voice counted.

He stared across the beautiful pool, wondering when he’d realized Levi meant that much to him. Aaron should have reached out himself. Typical though, Levi had connected instead. Aaron idly wondered again if Dani had something to do with bringing Levi to the center today. As Aaron stared at his surroundings, feeling a sense of hope inside for the first time, well, he felt so damned good right now it would be hard to be upset.

Maybe he didn’t need to pressure Dani about Levi. She’d seemed fairly natural in her responses. At times he was still surprised to see that she lived, worked and spent her spare hours here. Amazing how time had moved on, and she’d found what appeared to be her calling. Aaron had also seen her father running around at various times, now a beaming benevolent man. Aaron remembered hearing from others at the center about her father’s history and how he’d started this place, so Aaron could imagine Dani had been involved from the ground up.

Funny, he didn’t know much about Dani’s father when they were younger. Although he remembered something about him being hurt and Dani struggling. He thought she’d planned to go to college but couldn’t remember for what. You’d think he would remember, as everything else about her was stuck in his head. Then again school hadn’t been important to him back then. In any way, shape or form. All he wanted to do was get through it the best he could and as fast as possible.

When he’d been accepted into the military, his life had started. Of course the military had also brought his life to a grinding halt a decade later. He stared down at his hands. Maybe trauma was like that—he’d hit a wall, and everything stopped. Once he realized he was being blamed and that nobody believed him, all his defenses went up, and he had locked himself inside.

“Hey, what are you doing? Sleeping here?” Shane asked, standing beside him. “Shower time. Then it’s off to lunch and I promised you a massage.

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