Christmas in the Cage: A Fighting Series Short Story by JB Salsbury
Author:JB Salsbury [Salsbury, JB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-27T23:00:00+00:00
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âWhat the hell has you so happy?â I say to Blake as he sets his overflowing plate of food next to mine. The guy hasnât taken his eyes off his wife or Layla stopped grinning since he walked in. âArenât you and Layla getting a little too old for bathroom bloweys?â
Finally, the fucker loses his grin and frowns. âLike itâs possible to be too old for bathroom bloweys?â
Heâs got a point.
âBro,â Blake says while forking a bite of roast. âHenryâs looking more and more like you every day.â
I spot my son at the end of the table, his grin wide as he talks and laughs with Axelle and Carey. On the outside he does look a lot like I did at his ageâsame dark hair, colorful ink on his skin that toughens up his pretty face. And his eyes, the same shade of blue, but somehow lighter because he doesnât carry the shadows that are born from living years in an endless hell with no escape.
The memory sends a shiver up my spine and I suck in a shaky breath.
From under the table I feel my wifeâs warm palm run along my thigh and squeeze. Instantly Iâm flooded with her calming energy.
âHe may look like me, but he acts a lot more like his mom.â
Blake grunts in acknowledgement and maybe even camaraderie.
Jonah, Blake, and especially me, we were a mess before we met our wives. Irresponsible, living our days fighting and our nights in different beds with faceless women. As the saying goes, if Iâd only known then what I know now⦠And yet, somehow, our kids do. We all agree, we have our wives to thank for that.
Henry passed up the opportunity to go to college instead to work on his art and open his own tattoo shop. He works his ass off and runs a successful shop. He hasnât settled down with anyone special, but heâs the type of manâdedicated, loyal, respectfulâwhen the right woman stumbles into his life, he wonât make the stupid mistakes I did. Heâll claim her and never let her go.
As I cast my gaze around the table my chest aches for the little boy kept in a basement who craved love so deeply heâd do anything for it. If I could go back in time and tell him that one day heâd be a man sitting next to his savior and wife, surrounded by his children, friends, and blooded relatives, maybe he wouldâve fought harder.
âDonât do that,â Gia whispers into my shoulder then presses a kiss to the same spot.
I stare down into those gray eyes, the same gray eyes I dreamt about my whole life, the ones I held onto, the ones that saved me then and still today. âIâm not doing anything.â I put on my most believable smile.
But my wife can see my bullshit from a million miles away.
She lifts a brow. âYou get like this every Christmas. We canât go back and change the past.â
I run my hand up her back and sift my fingers into her silky hair.
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