Page 126 of My Fiancé's Brother
I nodded. “Good.”
The truth was I was slightly queasy, but I did feel well rested.
He nodded and walked into the kitchen. I spun around in my seat and watched as he poured himself a glass of water.
“You want to talk about yesterday?”
I shook my head. “Not yet.”
“At some point, you're going to need to.”
I couldn’t talk about it until I could think about it. And right now it was buried so deep in my brain behind all the other things I didn’t want to think about. I was barely conscious of it being there.
“Not today.”
He sipped his drink and watched as I picked up my fork and slowly ate my fruit. The silence between us hung heavy. I could tell that something was up.
“You’re leaving,” I blurted out, voicing my greatest fear.
“I have to fly back to Virginia for a couple of days. There's an arbitration that I'm required to attend.”
My heart hardened into a chunk of ice. He was leaving.
“For your job?”
“Yes.”
“Are you coming back?”
“I still have my outpatient program to finish.”
I blinked at the frustration in his voice. “Jackson, why are you an outpatient? Are you sick?”
He snorted. “It’s just a bullshit mandatory process.”
I sensed that today was not the day that I should bring up the baby. Giddy relief washed over that. I could avoid that conversation for another day. “You don’t seem that impressed.”
“It’s part of my obligatory COA that I need to do before they let me back into operations.”
“You have to do this before they let you work?”
He crossed his thick arms. “Yup.”
I had no idea what that meant or why it was happening, but I sensed that he was at the end of his patience on the matter. “When do you get back?”
He switched gears. “Are you going to see Matt today?”
I shrugged.
“How’s he doing?”
“Well, he’s able to walk for at least 5 minutes at a time. He hasn’t been sleeping all that good, but I'm told that’s part of his brain being hurt. The doctor said it would get better with time. He’s lost weight, but his appetite is good.”
“Has his memory come back?”
“Not yet.”
“So he remembers nothing of the past five months?”
