Military Matchmate by Jade Alters

Author:Jade Alters [Alters, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-25T16:00:00+00:00

Cassandra

Despite my hesitance to stay with Hunter, our days fell into a comfortable routine. Because we hadn’t gotten to have his party yet, I’d given Jacob his gift -- the tickets to Universal, and they’d been as big of a hit as I’d expected.

But now the fun and games were over. After a week, I had put the talk with Jacob off long enough. Now that the initial shock of discovering the smugglers had passed, I had to address how he’d gone off alone, broken every rule we had and then stumbled onto the smugglers.

“I’m sure you know what I want to talk about,” I said.

His gaze went straight to the floor. “Yeah.”

“You being safe is what matters most. And I don’t want to make you feel bad, and I don’t want to scare you. But we have these rules for a reason.”

“I know, mom.”

“When we get back home, the rules are going to change. No more kayaking without me. No more going into the woods without me. And no sleepovers for a month.”

Jacob hopped to his feet. “Mom! It’s summer. You can’t!”

“Oh, I can, and I will.” I pointed at the couch. “Sit back down.”

He wasn’t taking this seriously enough, but he’d heard plenty of chastising from me.

“Hunter? We’re ready for you,” I called out.

Maybe it wasn’t fair to put him in this position, but earlier in the day I’d asked Hunter if he’d talk to Jacob. I thought maybe hearing it from someone else, especially a grown man who was a trained soldier, that it might make more of an impression on Jacob. For right now, we had a living role model for Jacob, one that he already admired and respected.

Jacob sank into the couch, his face flaming red.

Hunter took the talk seriously, taking Jacob to fish in the pond out back while they talked. The image of them sitting together, their backs to me, one large and one small, sent a warm shiver down my spine.

Once they were back inside, Debra stood with her hands on Jacob’s shoulders. “Cassandra, I’d like to take this young man to a movie. He’s been such a great help to me, and he missed his birthday party due to those dreadful trespassers.”

“What were you wanting to see?”

“The one about the talking dog,” Jacob piped up.

“Debra, that’s really sweet, but I don’t know if any of us should be out in public right now.”

“You’re right. I know. What if we set up the projector in the backyard, and we can watch the movie under the stars? Would that work out Jacob?”

“A projector? Yeah!”

Hunter hung a sheet on the fence and got the projector set up with the first Harry Potter movie.

“This should be just right for us. We won’t be back inside all night.” Debra was clearly trying to send secret eye signals to us.

“Yeah! You guys are all alone,” Jacob added.

“Why’s that important?” I asked. “Do you guys not want to hang around us?”

Hunter’s eyebrows shot up, but I couldn’t help myself.

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