Chapter Twenty-One
Grizz didn't follow Patty into the house. What more could he say? He'd spent so much of his life protecting her, making sure she had everything she needed. But she was right. He had kept his distance. It was the way he knew to care for her.
It was just that he no longer wanted to keep his distance from her. Being apart from his wife, the woman he loved—had loved all his life—made him physically ill. But what could be done? He needed to provide for her, and this was the only way he knew how.
As a kid, Grizz had watched his mother work her fingers to the bone. She had taken to ignoring him. He'd received the love and attention he needed from the Keaton family. Mr. Keaton had shown him what it looked like to take care of a family by going away and deploying to dangerous
