Cas: Heroes at Heart by Maryann Jordan

Author:Maryann Jordan [Jordan, Maryann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-13T18:30:00+00:00

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Cas’ mind whirled with all the things that Bianca had told him. He could not believe that everything she had been through had not broken her, and yet, here she sat, staring at him with the same look of happiness that she had when he first met her as an eleven-year-old girl.

As he continued to grapple with the information she had shared, she concluded, “So, here I am. Deciding to come back to a place where I was happy and find out what’s next for me.”

“How did you get here?”

Laughing, she said, “I drove! I got rid of my small apartment, sold what furniture I had there, let my lawyer and financial planner know what I was doing, and hit the road. I drove north to Washington, then east into Montana. I loved driving for hours and just seeing the beautiful vista, and it was nice to be around so few people after having been in crowded California for so long. I wanted to see mountains, so I came through Wyoming and Colorado. I went through the plains in the middle of the country, and then through Oklahoma and Texas where I walked into the surf of the Gulf.”

“Wow… what a trip!” Other than the Army, he had never traveled much, but listening to her talk, he suddenly had the desire to see new places… if he could be with her.

“After that, I came up through the south and then the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee and North Carolina. I finally made it into Virginia, which was my destination all along.”

Uncertain what to say, he just continued to hold her hand, rubbing her fingers gently as his gaze never left hers.

“Cas, I had no idea you were living next door. I was simply traveling down this road to avoid an accident on the highway when I passed a ‘For Rent’ sign. I can’t explain what made me pull in, but as soon as I saw this little cabin, it was as though all the stress and longing fell away. As though I’d been searching for something for a very long time, and my search was over. I came back to Virginia because I wanted to be in a place where I had once been happier than I’ve ever been. I had no idea if Miss Ethel was still living in the old house, but I just knew I needed to go by and see.”

They sat quietly, still holding hands in the middle of her sofa, the sun sliding behind the trees casting shadows across the front porch. He held her gaze as her hand squeezed his.

She tilted her head slightly to the side, and said, “I’ve literally just handed you the last twelve years of my life. Please, please, tell me about yours.”

He sucked his lips between his teeth and shook his head slowly back and forth. “Bianca, I don’t even know what to say. I mean, what you went through… kept going through. I’ve got nothing that even compares to that.

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