SCAR: A Dark Military Romance by Loki Renard

Author:Loki Renard [Renard, Loki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

I get dressed and go and sit at the kitchen counter, where Tom has made a breakfast spread that would make a hotel chef cry. Croissants. Juices. Cheeses. Grapes. Three different kinds of jam.

“What’s this for?”

“Just felt like spoiling my little girl,” he says with a flicker of a wink.

“You’re way too fucking nice, Tom.”

“I’m just the right amount of nice, and no swearing, please.”

He really does treat me like I’m his kid. It’s kind of weird in a way, but it’s also really fucking sweet.

As I pick at what is enough breakfast for a small army, he makes conversation.

“You looking forward to Ken coming home?”

“Of course.”

“So you’ve forgiven him for sending you here?”

“Yeah,” I shrug. “I mean. I get it. He had to do what he had to do.”

Tom smiles. “You’ve come a really long way.”

“Yeah, from Afghanistan.”

“No, brat,” he snorts. “I mean, when you got here you were so angry. I could barely talk to you. But you seem happier now. Settled.”

“I’d like to be settled,” I mumble through crumbs.

“You can stay here as long as you like or need…”

“… or until Ken says otherwise,” I smirk.

“Or that,” Tom agrees. He doesn’t look happy about that. I think he likes having me here. I’m company. Not good company necessarily, but company.

“So what’s your story, doc?”

“What do you mean?”

“Why aren’t you working?”

“It pays to take some time off every now and then,” he says, turning his attention to cleaning crumbs off the counter. “Like when your marriage falls apart.”

I don’t want to pry, but I can see Tom being thrown off kilter by something like a marriage breakup. He’s strong, but sensitive, and he wears it on his sleeve.

“How long have you been off work?”

“I’ll be getting back to the hospital in a couple of months,” he says. “Don’t worry about me, little girl. I’m just enjoying my time off now. The wallowing is over.”

Maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t.

I know better than anyone that some things can hurt for a very, very long time.

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