Easy (SEAL Team EAST Book 3) by Zoe Dawson

Author:Zoe Dawson [Dawson, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Moon Creative
Published: 2023-08-18T18:30:00+00:00

Easy stared at Jeri’s body on the asphalt. The car had spun around on its roof, and she was sprawled not far from him. She was breathing hard, blood covering the side of her face. He crawled out of the vehicle, and stood, feeling a slight pain in his head, but that was it. His two friends in the back seat were still and everything was so silent except for the pop and pinging of engines. The truck that had hit them was on the torn-up lawn of the median, its front end smashed into a tree. He wasn’t even sure if they had even braked. He reached her and knelt, touching her face. Her eyes opened and she stared up at him.

“Matt,” she said, her breathing ragged. “I’m so sorry I couldn’t love you the way you needed me to love you. You are just too much. I was never the one for you.”

She was dying and this is what she had to say to him. Her rejection burned inside him, right down to his bones, muscles, and sinew. He choked on his rage and impotent fear as her eyes closed and her breathing slowed until it stopped. Blinded by a pain so intense that it felt as if his chest was coming apart, he dropped his head.

He shifted in his sleep, as things changed from one dark night to another. Easy collapsed on the grinder at the BUD/S compound, his legs giving out from under him, the asphalt digging into his exhausted body. He lay there, still unable to believe Hell Week was over.

“Easy,” Hemingway’s voice floated to him through his fog. “Man, are you all right?” Easy couldn’t answer, and he heard Hemingway say, “I think he passed out.”

“I feel like I’m going to black out any moment.” That was Rock’s voice and shame filtered through Easy. Rock had it harder than any of them, and he would follow that man into another Hell Week in a heartbeat.

He tried to push up, but his arms were spent. “Hey, buddy,” Hemingway said. “It’s okay. We’ve got you.”

They helped him up and supported him, and he was so grateful for their strength, apologizing over and over again for being weak. Then, suddenly, his chest was jammed tight, feeling like he was coming apart seam by seam. It was as if his words, those words from his now brother, stabbed through him, releasing all the emotions damned up inside him, and everything came boiling out. Stumbling against their holds, he went down to his knees, covering his face with his hands. He shook with so many pent-up feelings that he couldn’t tell one from the other. To his utter humiliation, he broke like a damn and cried like a baby.

The scene changed into a deep blue as he floated in the dark and shadows. The beam of light from his camera bounced off the craggy rocks of Diepolder. He could barely catch his breath. It was so beautiful. The water temperature was perfect all year-round.

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