Redemption by Meghan March

Author:Meghan March [March, Meghan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943796656
Published: 2023-10-12T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

LACHLAN

A nod with a wave from airport employees is all the attention we get when we disembark from the jet in the family hangar. It wouldn’t have been a problem to show our passports—they’re excellent and real—but not to need them is even better.

Marco and I grab the bags and load them into a red seaplane that sits in the hangar. The more I allow myself to live in the moment, the more surreal it becomes.

My brother and I are loading luggage into the family seaplane. Because I have a brother. Who has a family seaplane.

I don’t know when having a brother will feel normal, but it still fills me with emotions and feelings I haven’t had time to fully process in the mad dash to get out of the country.

But first … my mother.

Seeing the hot-air balloon with a giant red heart on the side of the silk, floating amid the thermal currents of the sky, still seems the most surreal of it all.

My mother is welcoming me home. Tears prick my eyes at the very thought—an unusual sensation, to be sure. One I haven’t felt many times in my life, but today, it seems all bets are off. Everything I thought I knew and understood about life and my place in the world has been replaced by a reality that has not yet become fully clear.

I picture the woman in the jet, with the dignified posture and beautiful silver hair, dropping to her knees and crying as she beheld me and clutched my hands.

The prick of tears turns to a sting, and I haul in a deep breath. Hold it together, Mount. You’re not going to start crying now. Keep it tight.

Despite all the violent and dangerous moments that I’ve faced in my life, this one has me nearly coming apart at the seams. This is the one that has me nearly breaking—and all I’m doing is loading bags into a plane.

Get it together.

Like I have so many times in the past few years, I turn to Keira. My beautiful wife. My strength, even if she doesn’t know it. Her shining red hair glints in the shaft of Italian sunlight cutting through the shadows of the hangar as our daughter rests peacefully on her shoulder.

“I love you,” I tell her, and her gaze cuts to mine.

I can read the questions in her eyes at my sudden declaration, but I don’t care if it seems out of place. It’s the truth. She knows it. I know it. And I couldn’t not say it right now.

Her lips curve into a sweet smile. “I love you too. Are you okay?”

I nod slowly. “I’m about to introduce my wife and daughter to my mother. I’m so far beyond okay that I couldn’t possibly tell you what I am right now.”

Marco overhears my statement, and his entire face softens. It’s not a look I’m used to seeing in the mirror, but I love seeing it on the face we share regardless. It fills me with the hope that, someday, it might be a look that Keira sees on my face more often.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.