Chapter Fourteen
To Begin Again
Five weeks after Dalton left, Jack came home. Hed been shot in the leg and shoulder, shrapnel going into his skull, though, thank the lord, there was minimal damage in the head wound. By the time he crossed the threshold of Roses house, most of the bandages were gone and there was just a small scar above his temple. He walked with a limp, arriving with a crutch that he threw away as soon as he got home, even though he probably should have kept it for a while. The deepest physical wound was in his shoulder and his arm was safely tucked into a sling.
Well, they say Im not going to be pitching softball much, he laughed as he greeted his mom and me in the kitchen of the stone house. He surprised us, getting an old friend from school to drive him home. Th
