Serena's Soldier: A Kismet Beach Novella by Amy Lamont

Author:Amy Lamont [Lamont, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Productive Ink Media

Chapter 10

Six weeks. Or, if she was going to be completely accurate, six weeks, two days, and…nine hours since she’d walked out the door of Miss Abigail’s home, leaving Mace behind.

Mandy and Miss Abigail called her the next day to let her know he was gone. He’d packed and left just like he said he would, leaving behind his worried family and one heartbroken, completely lost woman who loved him.

In the nine months she hadn’t heard from him before he came back to town, she hadn’t let herself believe that things might not work out exactly as she planned. Even after he arrived in Kismet Beach, broken and injured, she thought they’d figure things out. Together. And pull him through this.

A tiny part of her even held onto a small smidgen of hope, after he crushed her so harshly in Miss Abigail’s kitchen and she walked out the door, that he’d come after her and beg for forgiveness.

But that tiny flicker of hope got smaller and smaller each day, until it burned out completely. She couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment it happened. All she knew was the last few weeks she’d been going through the motions of living her life without really thinking about her future. Her excitement and hope had been overtaken, first by fear and grief, and now by a blessed numbness.

On this, her first day off after pulling four days of twelve-hour shifts, she decided it was time for her to get on with her life. She’d made a lot of decisions based on what she thought her life would be like with Mace. But now she had a whole world of options to consider.

The thought should excite her, but it was hard working up much excitement about anything these days.

She took her morning coffee out onto her tiny front porch and got comfy in her favorite spot—a big wicker rocking chair with a view of the neighborhood. If she angled it just right, she could even get a glimpse of the ocean down the road.

She sipped her coffee and allowed her mind to wander. She couldn’t help but wonder, if it hadn’t been for Mace, if she ever would have come back to Kismet Beach. And if, knowing there was the chance she’d run into him in the future when he visited his family, this was where she wanted to stay.

“You’re not letting a man influence the decisions you make about your life,” she whispered to herself.

“I hope that’s not entirely true.”

Serena jumped from her seat, spilling coffee down her shirt in the process.

“Oh, shit, I’m sorry.” Mace rushed up the porch steps to her side.

She dropped her coffee cup on the little side table and backed away from him, staring at him in wide-eyed shock. “Wh-what are you doing here?”

“I came for you.”

She blinked up at him, his words not quite sinking in.

But as she stared at him, some details did start to register. The deep grooves of pain that had been permanently etched around his mouth the last time she saw him were almost gone.

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