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About Burg
Burg is Giulia’s tenth book in the Reed Security series.
He’ll fight the devil himself to keep her by his side.
Blake “Burg” Reasenburg has it all. A woman he loves, a new baby, and the greatest job he could want. But that all changes in just the blink of an eye. What do you do when you can’t save the woman you love?
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Present Day…
Burg
I ran a hand through my hair as I leaned back in the hospital chair. How the hell had it come to this? I looked over at the bed, seeing the woman I loved more than anything in this world looking like death with tubes coming out of her. There was nothing I could fucking do about it. I couldn’t fight off this enemy. I couldn’t take her away from this and protect her with a home security system or with my brothers standing guard. This was something completely out of my scope.
“Hey, man. How’s she doing?” Sinner asked as he took a seat next to me.
“The doctor said everything went well. We just have to wait now.”
“I’m so fucking sorry. This is the last thing the two of you need to deal with right now.”
I scrubbed a hand down my tired face. I felt like I hadn’t slept in weeks. Ever since this started just four days ago, sleeping had been nearly impossible. I couldn’t even start to wrap my mind around what was happening. And Emma, she was just taking it one minute at a time. If she thought about it too much, she would break down, and that was something neither of us could afford right now. Doctors told her what to do and she went along with it, trying her best not to think about what was happening. I was fucking dying inside.
“Who’s watching Ryker right now?”
“Kathy,” I said quietly. Kathy was Emma’s mom. Ever since this happened, Kathy and I had come to a sort of stalemate in our contentious relationship. Our personalities just didn’t meld. I thought she tried to run Emma’s life too much and she didn’t like my attitude, which was basically that she needed to stay out of our lives and let us live them how we wanted. Of course, getting Emma pregnant so soon after we met didn’t make me a shining beacon in her eyes. I was the asshole that knocked her daughter up. It didn’t matter how much I loved her or that I would do anything for her and our son. I came up short where her mother was concerned.
Of course, it also didn’t help that I had PTSD episodes that sometimes got the better of me. When I was extremely stressed, they would get worse and I could be a real asshole. Emma took it in stride, always trying to level me out as best she could, but even she had a breaking point. Ironically, working always helped me stay level, which was fucked up since I was working in security and my PTSD stemmed from my time in the military.
I hadn’t had a lot of episodes, but I could feel the pressure mounting more and more since this whole thing started. It was just one thing after another. Doctor appointments, scans, taking care of our six week old son, trying to be there in any way I could for Emma, trying to hold our whole fucking lives together while everything was crumbling around us. I just had to keep taking it one day at a time and pray that everything would turn out alright. It had to. There was no fucking way I could lose her. Since the day I met her, I knew she was the one. To say we had an unconventional start would be putting it mildly.