Loving Them (Wings of Artemis Book 5) by Rebecca Royce

Author:Rebecca Royce [Royce, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: After Glows Publishing
Published: 2017-07-10T18:30:00+00:00

Tommy came awake slowly. Ari had gone to check on other patients, leaving me alone with my oldest husband. I stared down at him. At first he smiled, and then it fell. I guessed he was remembering exactly in what state we’d been in when he’d gone under.

He sat back on his elbows and then winced. “I don’t think it worked. I’m still achy.”

“Ari left all of you with bruised ribs. So you’d remember.”

Tommy sat all the way up, groaning as he moved. “My fucking cousin. Like I’d forget.” He swung his feet over the side of the table. “He’s probably right.”

I’d sent the others a message that I was here, waiting for Tommy to come out of the machine before I’d come back. They’d each responded, okay.

“This is what I told your brothers.” I had to be brave. Saying it once didn’t make saying it twice any easier. In some ways, having to voice this again was even worse than the first time because I knew how much it would hurt.

He nodded. “Go on, please.”

“I love you. All of you. I’ve got a lot of issues to work out. Violence, right or wrong, makes me feel crazed. Last night, I couldn’t even remember where I was or what was happening. I know you wouldn’t hurt me. Although I’ve been hurt, badly, before by people I thought wouldn’t do that. That being said, I need home to be safe. I need you to be safe. All of you. You can fight. You can argue. You can yell and curse. But if you get violent again, at home, with me, that’ll be that. Love or no love. I won’t compromise on that, Tommy. So if you want to have punching matches in the living room, we’re going to be done.”

Tears wavered in his eyes before they slid along his cheeks. “I promise, love. I promise. Never again. Not like that.”

I wiped his tears away. “You can’t leave when it gets hard. You can’t be done and walk out. How am I ever going to trust that you’ll stay and see us through if you do?”

“I wish I could go back, just go back and not say that. I’d say I needed a walk. Or some space. But not done. I sounded just like him.” He looked away. “I could hear it. That was my father coming out of my mouth.”

I took his hand and brought it to my lips, kissing his palm. “We’ll go from here. Do over. Last night was what it was. As long as we understand each other.”

“Do you still love me?” He asked me in such a quiet way it broke my heart.

“Forever and always. Even if we had to separate, end our marriage, I’d never stop.”

Tommy was pale. “Someday, I swear I’m going to be the best husband. I’ll work out how to get my shit under control, and you’ll never even think that we shouldn’t be together.”

He opened his arms, and I walked into them.

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