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Jo Goodman (61 page)
My Reckless Heart
The Thorne Brothers Trilogy
Book Two
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WITH ALL MY HEART
The Thorne Brothers Trilogy
Book Three
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With All My Heart
The Thorne Brothers Trilogy
Book Three
by
Jo Goodman
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WITH ALL MY HEART
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He came awake with a start. Sitting up reminded him how much pain he was in. He lay down again and closed one eye. Someone had already managed to close the other one for him. He explored the swelling gingerly. Even the lightest pressure from his fingertips made him groan.
He let his hand fall back to his side and flexed his fingers. They didn't feel bruised or broken. Hadn't he put up a fight at all? Then he wondered who he would have fought. Names and faces eluded him now.
Taking inventory of other body parts revealed a rather extensive list of injuries. In addition to the swollen right eye there was a lump on his forehead, dried blood under a possibly broken nose, a split lower lip, and ringing in his ears. And he had found all that before he got as far as his neck. Below his Adam's apple he discovered he had two ribs that were bruised or cracked, a dislocated collarbone, and swollen testicles.
Whoever it had been had worked him over good. The why of it wouldn't come to him.
He considered his legs next. They were sore but had largely been spared. His left thigh had received a few kicks, probably misplaced, he decided, when his attacker had aimed for his groin, but other than that he believed he could walk unaided. Where he might go was an unknown to him.
He applied himself to the problem of where he was. There were voices, footsteps, overhead. He was lying on the floor, but there were hammocks strung up in the room. They swayed as if a breeze were circulating around the four walls. There was no breeze, though. The air was close, stifling. The hammocks continued to swing.
It was natural, he supposed, that he hadn't noticed the room was rocking at the outset. It wasn't that he had been entirely unaware of it, but that he had misunderstood the cause. From the very first roll he had assumed there was a problem with his balance, something connected to the ringing in his ears. Now, as he watched the hammocks continue to swing, he realized there was too much rhythm in the motion. The room and its contents weren't spinning, merely swaying.
He was on board a ship. He couldn't imagine where.
With body parts accounted for and his immediate surroundings identified, he put himself to the task of making some sense of it all.
That was when he realized he didn't know his name.
With All My Heart
The Thorne Brothers Trilogy
Book Three
by
Jo Goodman
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With All My Heart
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Meet Jo Goodman
Jo Goodman is a licensed professional counselor working with children and families in West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle. Always a fan of the happily ever after, Jo turned to writing romances early in her career as a child care worker when she realized the only life script she could control was the one she wrote herself. She is inspired by the resiliency and courage of the children she meets and feels privileged to be trusted with their stories, the one that they alone have the right to tell.
Once upon a time, Jo believed she was going to be a marine biologist. She fells lucky that seasickness made her change course. She lives with her family in Colliers, West Virginia. Please visit her website at
www.jogoodman.com
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