Text by Cambria Hebert

Author:Cambria Hebert [Hebert, Cambria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Coming of Age, Romance, Contemporary, Military, New Adult & College
Amazon: B00GH0ZDLS
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

21

Honor

“Is he leaving?” Mom asked, watching as Nathan pulled the door around behind him.

My stomach was all kinds of discombobulated. That man had an effect on me like no other. I felt breathless every time he got close, and it wasn’t because my ribs were broken.

“He’s coming back,” I said, “which is a shock after the way you just acted.”

“Posh.” She scoffed (in the language of my mother, that meant she thought I was being silly). “That man is so taken with you he probably didn’t even notice I was talking.”

“Mom,” I groaned. “This isn’t some matchmaking opportunity.” My mother had a very bad habit of trying to fix me up with every single eligible bachelor she met. It didn’t matter if she knew him or not. One time she tried to set me up with our waiter when we went out to dinner.

She was positively relentless. But I loved her anyway.

“I don’t have to play matchmaker,” Mom said, sitting down in the chair Nathan just abandoned. He made the chair look small, but with her sitting there, it looked a lot larger. “The vibes between you two were rippling through this room the minute I walked in.”

“The vibes?” I said, thinking her colorful vocabulary was likely the reason I became a writer.

“You know,” she said, wagging her eyebrows. “The mojo.”

I burst out laughing. It hurt and I collapsed against the pillow.

Mom started fluttering around, trying to adjust my pillow. When the pillow didn’t fluff up to her liking, she frowned. “Go get cleaned up so we can go. The pillows at home are much more comfortable.”

She didn’t mean my house. My home. “Mom,” I said gently. “You know I’m going to my house, right?”

She looked at me like I had three heads. I admit, my eye was swollen enough that I probably looked like I had two. “You are not going home alone, young lady,” she said in a stern, no-nonsense voice.

“Yes, I am.”

“Shall I call your father?”

“I’m not twelve. That threat doesn’t work on me anymore.”

“Posh,” she said again and dug around in her too-large bag and pulled out a cell phone. “I’m calling him,” she said, giving me one last chance to change my mind.

Nathan walked in the room, carrying a pen and a small piece of white paper.

“Go ahead,” I told her.

She pressed a few buttons and then paced over to the window. A few seconds later, my father must have answered because she said, “Eric, you need to give this girl a talking to!”

Then she launched into some tirade, which she tried to whisper like she was being secretive. I looked at Nathan and rolled my eyes.

“What’s going on?” he asked, coming closer.

“She’s mad because I told her I wouldn’t come and stay with her.”

He frowned. “You should.”

“Not you too.”

“You shouldn’t be alone right now.” The way he said it made me think he had some reasons.

I knew what those reasons were. It was exactly why I couldn’t stay with my mother.

I sighed. “Look, you and I both know he’s still out there.

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