After Jethro was shot, Rashel stayed away from Sceptre. She worked a little in her home office, but mostly, she stayed beside him, nursing and talking him back to life. But now it was time to go back and face the world. Jethro had healed enough for her to stop fussing over him and return to Sceptre Towers.
As Rashel walked beside Jethro from the car park to the company’s lobby, she felt a sense of wholeness that she hadn’t felt in quite a long time.
Three weeks ago, she’d sat beside him with guilt weighing heavily on her heart, watching him fight for his life. Three weeks ago, she had been vulnerable and transparent, and she let Jethro and everyone else see her as she once was. A woman capable of fear, and not the stiff commander everyone thought she was.
But that didn’t matter now. She
