Chapter 61: Chapter 61

These scenes provided a welcome experience for RJ for the first three days he arrived directly from Saudi.

I could get used to Florida!

The loneliness sunk in after the third day. In Saudi it was easy to shrug off these issues. He would go to work, swim, pore over every detail of his C-130.

His job right now didn’t require that, and he needed a routine to keep him busy to get his mind off Pad. Brenda told him to forget he existed while Chaz and Ann said go after him. He didn’t know what to do between the weeks of their last contact and this moment.

The mornings waking up alone became the hardest for him.

When the sun rose today, and the sunlight streamed in, he remembered how the last morning in Bangkok the same sun enveloped Pad as the rays filtered through the shimmery drapes, at first edging to Pad’s side of the bed, then moving closer to his.

God, I miss him. And I still love him