Chapter 98: Let Me Love You

Jackson jerked awake with the sheets tangled around him. The sweat was beading on his forehead and chest and the sudden movement hurt like a bitch. He cursed under his breath and tried to catch his breath again. The dream that woke him was the same dream that'd woken him just about every night since he came to in Germany. They said he'd regained consciousness downrange, but he didn't remember being there. When he woke in the unfamiliar hospital, he'd tried to find out what happened, and all he'd been told was that there was a rocket launched their way, and he'd been injured. He had some severe burns on his hip and right leg, shrapnel they had removed from his right side, and his left shoulder had been dislocated. A couple of ribs that had broken, and his broken left leg seemed to cause more of the lingering pain, but he'd just been beaten to hell. He'd had a couple surgeries, and now finally after a month and a half, he was going home.