Chapter 5
“It’s your show, Captain. The floor is yours.”
Yes, I was ready to have this conversation, but that didn’t mean I was going to make it easy for him. This had to be on him.
“What do you want me to say?”
I shrugged and leaned back, then took a long pull from the bottle. “I don’t want you to say anything but the truth. About what happened back then and why you’re here now.”
“I’m here because I missed you. Because I was wrong to push you away and break things off. I knew by the time we went wheels up that I’d made a huge mistake.”
“But you didn’t say anything. You could have right then. But you didn’t.”
“No, I didn’t.” Cooper leaned forward, resting his forearms on his thighs and dangling the bottle between his knees. “I was still being deployed. I was still going to be gone f
