Undercover Honeymoon by Kari Iroz

Author:Kari Iroz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: wedding;romance;FBI;secret;agent;cruise;plot;conspiracy
Publisher: Covenant Communications, Inc.
Published: 2019-03-26T20:15:09+00:00

Chapter 19

When I wake I’m caught for a few moments in that drowsy, neutral place where you’re still half-dreaming and oblivious to anything that happened the night before.

I stretch under the covers, reveling in the softness and expecting Damon to sling a sleepy arm around me.

Then I remember.

Following him onto the deck. Finding him tussling with Yuri. Our fight in the lounge.

And it feels like my life is over.

It was only one fight, but it feels like this one argument has spread debris over our entire relationship.

For some reason, my car wreck starts replaying in my mind. I was a junior in high school, driving Dad’s car to a football game or something—I can’t even remember where I was headed. I was already running late to pick up a friend and turned left in too small a gap. The other driver T-boned the passenger door and totaled Dad’s car. Standing beside the smoking Buick with police car beacons flashing over the wreckage, I tortured myself with an obsessive circle of thought: One split second. If I just hadn’t turned the wheel then . . . One split-second, awful decision.

That split-second devastation followed us for weeks of Dad riding the bus while I tried to pay off the repairs with my meager earnings from the job I had after school at a yogurt shop. A split second that I paid for, for a solid seven months.

This is like that. Only a thousand times worse. Yesterday we were blissfully happy, and today I don’t know how to scoop the egg yolk back into Humpty Dumpty’s cracked shell.

I roll over, but the other side of the bed is empty. There’s just a rumpled sheet from where he slid off the mattress. No sound of running water in the bathroom.

He woke up and left without telling me.

He’s an early bird. I’m sure I’ll wake many mornings to find the bed empty and Damon at the kitchen table with files and notes piled

around him.

But his absence in the wake of our fight feels ominous. Snatches of conversation from last night keep drifting back to me in unpleasant waves.

“Why is it bad to be responsible? Someone has to be, Jack. We can’t all keep living like college kids forever . . .”

“It was a reasonable risk the Bureau was willing to take . . .”

“Some things are more important than a vacation, you know? Some things are more important than . . .”

Me.

The hurt has permeated my skin, making me pained to the touch. I thought I made my peace with Damon’s job. I’ve known there will be parts of his life he can’t share. But I didn’t think he’d lie about it on this grand a scale.

And I never thought the job was more important to him than me.

Groggily I pad into the bathroom and shower to wash away some of the ache. I’m hoping Damon will return to the cabin and be waiting when I step out of the bathroom. But when I finish it’s still empty.

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