Lorenzo & Lily (Royals of Valleria #8) by Marianne Knightly

Author:Marianne Knightly [Knightly, Marianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Marianne Knightly
Published: 2016-12-15T18:30:00+00:00

Lorenzo walked into Perez’s room, startled but fucking pleased to see he was up. A tray of half-eaten food was nearby; half-eaten was better than un-eaten.

Progress.

“Heard from the doc you went to PT yesterday. Guess you wanted to hear about last night, didn’t you?”

Hector picked at a non-existent thread in the bedcovers. “No. Just felt like going.”

“Good. That’s a fuck of a better reason to go to PT than hearing about my life.”

The corner of Hector’s mouth tipped up. “But your life is so interesting. Tell me what happened.”

“First tell me why you skipped tea yesterday. I was looking for you. Plus, my brothers are here visiting and I wanted to introduce them to you.”

Hector shrugged. “PT took a lot out of me, that’s all. Wanted some rest.”

“I sent a VSO volunteer up here with some food.”

The corner of Hector’s mouth tipped up. “She was, um, nice.”

“Nice? She’s beautiful, intelligent, and spends her free time volunteering for a noble cause. She’s a catch. She’s leaving the VSO to focus on classes when she starts back at university in January. Since she wouldn’t be a volunteer anymore, you’d be free to ask her out on a date.”

Hector’s eyes narrowed. “How do you know so much about her?”

Lorenzo rolled his eyes. “I know all the VSO volunteers who come to the MARC, because I meet them during the training they’re required to take.”

“Oh.”

“Thought I’d had my wicked way with her?”

“No,” he said quickly. “Of course not.”

“Well, just so we’re clear, I don’t socialize with VSO volunteers, not in that way.” At least, not since Lily. “You going to PT again?”

Hector sighed. “Yes. Later today, if they can fit me in.”

“But you don’t want to wait, do you? You had a taste of real exercise for the first time in months, and you’re itching to get back, even if it is some of the hardest shit you’ll do in your life.”

“Something like that. You feel like this?”

Lorenzo nodded. “When I got back, after I got physically better, I didn’t want to move. I wanted to stay in bed. I wanted my family to stop visiting, giving me those pitying looks. I went back to PT for the wrong reasons. I did it just to shut my family up. If I went, they thought I was improving. I realized I liked the high of exercising, but it can become like a drug. Your body convincing you you’re happy, even when you’re not. It was then I found a therapist, and he started me on a path that’s working.”

Hector frowned, and went back to picking at the bedspread. No. He was toying with the shell Lorenzo had given him yesterday, the shell he was currently trying to keep out of sight.

“I see it,” Hector whispered. “All the fucking time. Practically every time someone opens the goddamn door, I expect to see someone shooting at me. Even all these years later. I can’t stop it.”

Lorenzo put his hand over Hector’s. “You can, you just don’t have the tools to do it.

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