Blinding Trust (Mitchell Family, #7)(71)

The kids were so tired from playing, that they all fell asleep on the way home. Even Noah only lasted the first hour. He was soon asleep with ear buds stuck in his ears.



We didn’t get home until midnight that night. Savanna was tired and I was exhausted from driving. I couldn’t wait to climb into our soft bed and cuddle up next to her. She knew what my motives were. We helped all three children up to their rooms and got them tucked in before meeting in our room.

Savanna wrapped her arms around me. “Thanks for this weekend.”

I kissed her nose. “The trip, or what we did in the field?”

She giggled. “Both.”

I wiped her hair away from her face and tucked it behind her ears. “Are you tired?”

She shrugged. “A little.”

I tugged at her shirt and lifted it over her head. She stood there in her bra, looking up at me. I reached down and tugged on her pants, pulling them and her underwear down at the same time. I leaned in and kissed the base of her *, while looking up at her watching me. I could tell she was more tired than she was admitting to, so I stood up and removed her bra and then pulled her nightgown over her head.

Savanna looked at me like she was confused.

“Darlin’, I just want to hold you in my arms and go to sleep. If that’s alright with you, of course. I mean, if you want me to kiss it again, I won’t complain.”

She placed her hands on my chest and moved them up and down. “I love you.”

“And I love you.”

Savanna walked toward the bed, leading me by the hand. When we got to her side, she wrapped her arms around me and held me there. “Colt, I’m scared. I don’t want to get sick. It’s going to scare Noah and the girls and I can’t have them fearing me. I don’t want them seeing me weak.”

“You’re goin’ to be fine. You heard the doctor. He said that the radiation is going to be mild. You probably won’t get sick at all. Darlin’ I get that you’re worried, but the kids are goin’ to want their mother around. They ain’t goin’ to care if you got sick a couple of days to do it.”

She nodded and looked up at me with tears in her eyes. “We’re halfway there, ya know.”

“We can get through the rest. If I have to, I’ll have my mom take the kids to Disney again. By the time they get back, you’ll be feelin’ better. They’ll never know.”

“What if something bad happens?”

I got that she was afraid, but she was worrying about things that were set in place to make sure the cancer was gone. It was more important than anything, considering it was life and death. As upset as she was, there was not going to be any backing out. If I had to fight her, I would.

I grabbed her hands and kneeled down in front of her. “Listen to me and hear me good. You are going to get through this.”

She nodded. I leaned over and kissed her on the lips. She climbed under the covers and I climbed in behind her, wrapping my arms around her waist. “What would I do without you?”

“You never have to find out, because I ain’t goin’ anywhere and neither are you.”





Chapter 31


Savanna


The next couple of weeks went by too quick, probably because I didn’t want to do the radiation treatment. Colt was getting used to taking care of the kids and helping out. I felt fine, but he insisted on keeping with his program until everything was over with. It was summer, so the kids had plenty of time to help him out.

For the most part, they did okay. I found myself sneaking behind them and picking up, or going into the laundry room and switching things over. I think I was so bored that I wanted things to do.

I’d never read so much or watched television, until it was all I had to do. I wasn’t surprised when Zeke and Piper were plastered all over the news. When he found out about her being pregnant by another man, he started going crazy. One day while she wasn’t at home, the news reported that he had her swimming pool filled with trash. They said he paid someone to drain it and dumb tons of trash in it, including some of her favorite belongings. They talked about how the divorce was going to get ugly. As sad as it was for a marriage to end, I couldn’t feel bad for them. He’d tried to drag my son into a publicity scam and left him scarred. If we never saw Zeke again, it would be too soon.

On the day of my first radiation treatment, I was petrified. I thought it was going to make me deathly ill and I’d have to be carried out of the place. It turned out, it was nothing like that at all. My oncologist had to do a couple extra things being that it was my first treatment. They gave me these tiny tattoos that were barely noticeable and went through all of the instructions with me in detail. I had to remain perfectly still and move only when the nurses told me to. The procedure itself only lasted about twenty minutes. The nurses called it baking time. Within an hour of arriving at the place, we were leaving, walking out of there like nothing had happened.

Colt reached over and grabbed my hand while he drove. “What was it like?”

“Actually, it was pretty simple. They said I might get tired, but that’s about it. I heard another woman mentioning that she’d done chemo and the radiation was much easier. She said she’s never been sick one time from it and this was her thirtieth session.”

“Damn, she must have it bad. It’s a damn shame they don’t have a better cure. You’d think after all these years they’d have found one by now.”