Peace of Mind
Copyright© 2021 by DB86
Chapter 16
Grace kept looking at her phone. She liked Landon. She admired his courage. Even worse, she was attracted to him and far more intensely than she’d been to any man in a very long time.
Last night, when she got home, Grace did something she never thought she would do, she went online and ran a search. She shouldn’t have. It was none of her business and Landon was entitled to his privacy, but she couldn’t help it.
Several articles came up when she searched his name. One article mentioned he and Derek were the survivors during a terrorist attack in Afghanistan. There were some paragraphs dedicated to Derek’s injures. She realized how close Derek and Landon were to dying that day.
She skimmed through the rest of the articles, but most of them were a repetition or an update of the same news.
Grace continued her search and then found a small article on a news blog from Landon’s hometown. “Darla Cayley and Landon Petersen had broken their engagement. Three weeks after Landon Petersen returned from Afghanistan as a decorated hero, Darla Cayley announced the end of their engagement. The announcement came as a surprise since both of them had been dating for five years. Ms. Cayley wrote a Tweet saying that they had grown into very different people.”
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