CHAPTER 354

“You in pain now?”

“Yeah.”

“How bad?”

“It’s been worse.”

Domini rattled off a Russian phrase.

Hell, she only swore in Russian when she was really pissed. He attempted to remove his stump from her hands. “Let me do this. I…you know my family ain’t ever seen me—”

“Vulnerable?” she supplied. “The injured war hero Cameron McKay has a chip on his shoulder the size of his missing leg, when it comes to letting his family see his stump.”

Cam’s mouth dropped open in shock.

But his wife wasn’t finished. “I can see how you’d hate all the love, support and help they’ve offered you. That has to suck.”

“Domini—”

She got right in his face. “I understand that you don’t want to show your stump to the world at large. But these people—” she gestured to the group watching them very closely from afar, “—aren’t the world at large. They care about you. They always have, they always will. What don’t you get about that?”

“You sent Keely away,” he pointed out.

“I’m not talking about Keely. Besides, if I wouldn