Melissa by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773364209
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Shane happened to be going down the hallway from one of his other sessions, preoccupied with his tablet. Only as he moved to avoid a wheelchair did he note it was Melissa coming out of Dr. Sullivan’s office. He stopped, looked at her, and smiled. “Hey,” he said. “Sorry, I didn’t see you.”

“I’m hardly somebody to miss,” she said humorously, pointing to the wheelchair.

He shook his head. “Forget about the wheelchair,” he said. “You’re somebody who’s hard to miss anyway.” Her smile beamed, and he laughed. “And I meant it.”

“Uh-huh,” she said, chuckling. “Sure you did.”

He shook his head. “You’ll have to work on that.”

“Work on what?” she asked curiously.

“The inability to accept a compliment for what it is.”

She stopped and stared.

He shrugged his massive shoulders. “I meant it,” he said. “You’re hard to miss.” She obviously didn’t know what to say, so he smiled and said, “How did your session go?”

“Oh, she’s an interesting person to talk to,” Melissa admitted. “It’s different from what I thought I would be getting out of it. But it’s helping.”

“Good,” he said. “That’s important.”

“I just didn’t realize,” she said, as she wheeled down the hallway beside him, “just how much all this interacts with everything else in my system.”

“A lot of people like to forget that healing has to happen on all levels,” he said in a serious tone. “And sometimes they don’t like to have it pointed out. Because a lot of times people come into an injury, an accident, with some really deep grudges, for completely different reasons, different people involved. But it’s the same thing. You still have to let go of some of the stuff in order to let your body do what it needs to do.”

“That sounds so … woo-wooish,” she said with a laugh. “For want of a better word.”

“I know,” he said. “But we see it time and time again here.”

She nodded. “I guess I just hadn’t thought about it before.”

“Well, now you have plenty of chances to think about it.”

“Which is exactly what these sessions appear to make me do,” she admitted.

“Good,” he said. And then in a gentler voice, he continued, “Just don’t stress yourself too much about it because then you’re defeating the purpose.”

She rolled her eyes at that. “It’s not like there’s an easy way to handle any of this.”

“Maybe not,” he said. “But, when you think about it, there’s an awful lot that one can do, and a lot of it is just allowing yourself to heal, allowing yourself to heal inside as well as outside.”

She nodded slowly.

He pointed at her room and asked, “Are you going in there or are you heading down to the cafeteria? What’s next on your schedule?”

“Well,” she said, “I think I have an update meeting with Dani. She said to stop by whenever I had a moment today. Then I’m not sure. I may have an hour or two off this afternoon.”

“Wow,” he said. “How’d that happen?”

She looked up at him, smiled, and said, “I figured somebody must have dropped the ball.

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