HOT Secrets by Lynn Raye Harris

Author:Lynn Raye Harris [Harris, Lynn Raye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1941002366
Amazon: B07BB2F7NG
Publisher: H.O.T. Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

He couldn’t believe he was saying it after all this time—after four years of anger and bitterness—but he’d finally come to believe that Bliss hadn’t intended for him to get caught up in the maelstrom surrounding Major Tucker’s treason. He still didn’t like that she’d lied about her background, that she’d married him and didn’t tell him the truth of who she worked for or where she came from, but maybe he kinda understood that too.

Maybe.

She didn’t say anything, and he rolled his head on the back of the chair, turning to look at her. She was staring, her jaw slack.

“What? You didn’t think I could change my mind? Or admit that I might have been wrong?”

Her mouth closed. “After four years, no, not really. You’ve been pretty adamant in your beliefs.”

“Yeah, well, I used to believe my dad was a great guy—and look where that got me.” He sounded bitter. Because he was bitter, dammit. Maybe he’d had too much privilege that he took for granted growing up, maybe he’d needed a lesson or two in humility, but he’d have liked to have had them without innocent people getting hurt. Without his family fracturing and falling apart.

“I’m sorry, Sky. I never believed my parents were great people, so I don’t know what that’s like. I imagine it was rough though.”

“Yeah, it was. I had no advance warning. I found out the same way everyone else did—the day he was arrested and it made national news. It was like Bernie Madoff all over again, but it was my dad. My mom crying on camera, the media circus surrounding them, the endless questions and speculation. I left school and went home, but there was no home anymore. The government seized everything, including our trust funds, which were supposed to be untouchable. There was nothing left. Needless to say, Harvard was out. I had scholarships, but not a full ride. I gave them up because I was too pissed to go back. Probably not the brightest thing I ever did, but I needed a change after my dad’s arrest. So I joined the Army—upset my mother so much she didn’t speak to me for three months. My brother, Storm, was on a football scholarship to Stanford, so he stayed.”

Storm was a year older and he’d been in his senior year. He’d been determined to make the NFL, so he’d stayed and worked toward that goal. Sky hadn’t had a concrete goal he’d been pursuing, so when their father was arrested, it was as if the ground beneath his feet was cut away. Everything he thought he’d known was a lie. The people he’d grown up with shunned him. His classmates looked down their noses at him.

And he’d thought, fuck you all, I’m going to do something with my life. Something important. The idea of being a SEAL or Delta Force had taken root during a history class where he’d had to study modern warfare. It had been a toss-up between the Army and the Navy, but being on a ship would have reminded him too much of trips on the family yacht.

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