In My Heart by Nora Everly EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Nora Everly
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- Genre: Contemporary Romance
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Luke
One more swing and the tree fell. The scent of dirt blasting into the air
filled my lungs while the sunlight filtering through the pines cast the
forest floor in spiky patterns of shadow and light. I let my senses fill,
grounding myself against the regrets threatening to derail the progress I had
made since returning home from Afghanistan.
I was a father.
I had a son. If I got a handle on myself, I might be able to meet him and
see his mother again. My Lily was also back in Sweetbriar, our small Oregon
hometown. The thought of seeing her again after everything I had done and
how I had ended it all—
I cut Lily out of my life. I had thought she deserved so much more than
what I could offer. After a certain point, the things I’d seen and done in the
Army had blended together into a black cloud of hurt and pain and I could no
longer process what was happening to me. My grandfather tried to help but
you can’t help someone who feels worthless, so I cut him out too and stayed
away from Sweetbriar.
Frustrated, I wiped the back of my hand across my sweaty brow, then
took swing after swing at the fallen tree, splitting it into manageable pieces.
Some of it I would use for firewood; the rest I would carve into animals, or
chess pieces, or paperweights, or whatever else crossed through my thoughts
the next time I needed to disconnect from the world.
My muscles burned and my still-injured back ached as I straightened but
pain wasn’t enough to make me forget what I had done. Nothing ever was. I
could never disconnect from Lily. She was branded on my soul. No matter
how far apart we were or how many years went by, she was always there.
Memories played on a loop in my mind like an old black and white movie—
sometimes skipping, sometimes blurry, but never gone. Those memories
pulled me through some of the worst moments of my life, even when I had
wanted so badly to let go of everything and fade away.
When I found out she was coming home my life burst back into color.
Everywhere I went in this town held a moment we shared. She was on my
mind constantly and it was driving me to distraction. It hurt. The desperate
yearning in my chest grew bigger every day, overwhelming all other facets of
my world until all I could think of was how to convince her to let me back
into her life again.
I wondered how she was now. My heart broke for her when I found out
her husband died. Then I was sick at myself for being happy I might have a
shot to get her back. And my son? I wanted him too. I wanted my life to be
the way it should have been before I fucked it all up.
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