The Secret I Carried
Language: en
I was a Special Ops Commander’s secret girlfriend for seven years. My mother, worried, had urged me to move on—this was her 99th try. She mentioned a former classmate asking about me, suggesting it was time to consider someone else. Gideon and I were to attend a military reunion the next day. I promised her I’d give him one last chance: if he still wouldn’t acknowledge us, I’d leave. At the reunion, a game called Blind Fate had single men blindly choose a woman’s hand from behind a curtain. When it was Gideon’s turn, I offered my left hand—the one with a jagged scar from taking a bullet…