Barbara Taylor Bradford - Damaged - A gripping short read, the perfect escape for an hour

That was when she saw Mike. He was standing on the other side of the bar, just looking at her, staring. Mike. It was Mike!

Her mouth went dry. Her heart was pounding so hard she couldn’t breathe. What was happening? Mike was dead. Killed in action in the Middle East two years ago. He was dead.

It flashed through her mind that she was hallucinating, but she knew better. She wasn’t that far gone. Mike was here. And he was seeing what had become of the woman he once had loved.

He hadn’t changed a bit in the two years since she’d last seen him. The same steel-blue eyes, military bearing, and rugged good looks. And the same look of pain he’d had on his face when she said all those terrible things the last time they were together. Before he died. Before she died with him.

But this was Mike! Alive! She started towards him, a thousand questions, a thousand apologies forming in her brain.

His stare stopped her in her tracks. His eyes were dead, filled with pity. Or was it disgust? He turned and walked away.

She had to hang onto the bar to keep from running after him. She loved him too much to beg for one more chance, to embroil him in the hell her life had become. She had long since used up her second chances.

Allison looked back at her reflection in the mirror. What she saw there was no longer funny. The shock of seeing him had cleared her mind enough for her to see what Mike had seen … a loud, blowsy, desperate drunken woman.

‘Charlie,’ she said to the bartender when she could finally speak. He started to refill her glass but she waved the bottle away. ‘Call Midtown South Precinct. Ask them to tell Jimmy to come and get his sister. Tell him she wants to come home.’

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