Sharp Edge (Security Operations Group Bravo) by Kat Bammer

Author:Kat Bammer [Bammer, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783903379343
Publisher: Kilo Bravo Sierra Press
Published: 2023-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

25

FELICIA

There was some debate as to who would drive us home from the hospital until Jeremy made the executive decision.

We borrowed Dorothy’s car since Jeremy didn’t have a car and she had a car seat in the back, while Carter, Edith, and Dorothy stayed in the hospital with Gracie and George.

The ride home to Three Oaks was quiet.

“Are you hungry?” Jeremy asked and looked through the rearview mirror at Bobby.

“Yes,” Bobby answered.

“Fast food okay?” Jeremy asked me, and I nodded. On a day like today? If Bobby wanted ice cream for dinner, it would be fine with me.

We went through a drive-through, and Bobby dove into his fries as soon as I handed him the food. Apparently, my little boy was much more resilient than I was because the scent of food alone had my stomach roiling.

Once we arrived at my house, we remained seated.

“Do you have your keys?” Jeremy asked.

I sagged in my seat and shivered with a wave of cold.

The keys! I forgot the keys.

I shook my head, tears pooling in my eyes.

I hadn’t even thought about any of that. Dorothy must still have them. Or she’d given them to Edith since the keys to Gracie’s apartment were on the same keychain.

Jeremy’s eyes never left me. “Any hidden spare keys?”

I shook my head and started shaking all over.

My neighbor had kept a set of spare keys for a while. But Roy hadn’t liked that and demanded them back. It had been an early sign of Roy’s mistrusting nature—one of many—that I’d ignored.

“Okay, no big deal,” Jeremy said and laid his hand over mine. “Feli?”

I nodded but didn’t look up. If I looked at him, I would lose it over a set of forgotten keys.

Hell. I was losing it anyway.

“Feli, eyes on me.” His words were whispered, but there was a hard edge to his voice. It snapped me out of the downward spiral of self-reprimanding going through my head enough for me to pull it together. I looked up and met his eyes head-on. His were calm and warm in the overhead light. And they grounded me even more.

“I’m going to handle this, but I need you to breathe for me. In through your nose, out through your mouth. Long, deep, breaths. Can you do that for me?”

I nodded.

He leaned forward and gave me a bruising kiss. “Be right back.” Then he got out of the car and walked to the house next to mine.

I watched him through the windshield, concentrating on taking deep breaths. I hadn’t realized how shallow I was breathing, and it was difficult at first, but after a couple of awkward inhales, I figured it out. In, belly extending, and slowly out in a long exhale.

He rang the bell, and Homer, my next-door neighbor, answered the door. Jeremy motioned to us in the car, showed him his badge, then they walked together to the attached garage. Homer had been concerned after my first fight with Roy and had even called the cops once. After that, Roy was careful, toeing the line, not using physical violence, at least not too much.

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