The Planner: A Sweet, Small Town, Military Romance (Brides of Beaufort Book 2) by Jess Mastorakos

Author:Jess Mastorakos [Mastorakos, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-22T18:30:00+00:00

13

WILL

My date with Aria on Saturday night couldn’t have gone better. After we’d established that we were in love, and dating, we’d spent hours talking and laughing on the dock like we used to. It was as though the weight on my shoulders about running into my mom had been erased by the magic of that lake–of her–just like always.

The only thing that remained on the edges of my mind was the old fear I’d been pushing down. There was still a chance I could end up like my dad. But between Donna and Ms. Hattie, I had to admit their pep talks made me feel lighter about that. Like I wasn’t my dad, and like my story didn’t have to end up like his. I could be happy. We could be happy.

But now, I had to tell Paul. And even though I’d spent every minute since that night on the dock trying to figure out how to do it, the words kept sticking in my throat. Not only that, but I’d barely seen the guy. He’d spent all day Sunday with Shelby. In the car on the way to work today, he spent the whole time talking my ear off about his wedding, or their house-hunting adventures, or his work stuff. There never seemed to be a good segue into the conversation. But maybe that was because I was scared of his reaction, so I was only being a chicken.

Paul’s wedding was this weekend. If I wanted him to process my confession and be cool with me in time to stand up as his best man, I needed to take care of this. Today.

I plopped my cranial on the desk when I entered the shop from the hangar, hooking my tool pouch on the wall. I had an hour for lunch before I had to get back to work. That would be plenty of time to meet up with Paul and tell him the truth. Chase always ate lunch with us, but I wasn’t sure if I wanted an audience for this conversation. Sure, it might be good to have a witness to my murder. But at the same time, if Paul decided to beat me to death, I didn’t want Chase to do anything stupid like try to stop him. I sure wouldn’t. If he felt that strongly about me being with his sister, I’d let him hit me.

When I crossed back into the hangar with my phone in hand, I scanned the faces of the other Marines, looking for Chase. He was supposed to meet me in the shop so we could head to lunch as usual, but he was nowhere to be found.

I stopped a corporal as he walked by. “Hey, you seen Mitchell?”

His face darkened. “Flight line.”

“Thanks.” Quirking a brow, I turned that way.

“Sergeant Paxton?” the corporal asked, hesitating when I looked back at him. “Sergeant Roberts is really on him today.”

Knowing it took a lot of courage for him to tell me that, considering

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