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“Big fucking deal,” she said and then slapped her hand in front of her mouth. “Sorry.”
“Don’t be. I don’t have any memory of anything else that night. I had a major concussion. I ended up with crazy vertigo for a solid month. I couldn’t find my balance, let alone walk without dry heaving from the sickness of any motion. I had double vision. It wasn’t pretty.”
“I don’t know what to say,” she said. “Raina never said a word.”
“She was in college. We didn’t tell her all of it. Or I didn’t. My parents knew but not a lot more. She knew I had vertigo. She knows about the concussion but not much else.”
“There is more?” she asked.
“I was out of work for a few months. I went back and thought things were good, but there was a fight in the jail. I got sucker-punched. It didn’t knock me out or anything like that, but my ears wouldn’t stop ringing. The vertigo started again. I’m telling you, that is the worst feeling ever.”
“Do you still get it?” she asked.
“I haven’t in years and hope I never do again, but I know it could happen too.”
“That’s horrible,” she said.
“It is. It was. I’m fine now.” No reason to say it’d been months since his last migraine. No one in the family knew about them. He had meds he took when they were coming on and normally was able to tough it out.
Not that he thought Megan would go back and tell Raina anything, but he wasn’t taking that chance either.
“I’m glad to know that,” she said. “You had to leave your job then?”
“I didn’t, but I chose to. I couldn’t take the chance of it happening again. I had to sit down and decide what worked for me and owning a gym just felt right. My parents helped me get the loan and get it up and going and it’s just taken off since.”
“I bet it took off right away,” she said.
“It did. Many knew me from the circuit and what happened. They thought I had so much talent and the next thing I know I’m being asked to train one-on-one. I figured it was a way to get more business to the gym.”
“You can get hit in the head though,” she said.
He didn’t like the worried look on her face. “No. I wear gear and head hits aren’t allowed. I don’t fight like you think. We go through the motions but nothing that can injure me. That is what the mock fights are for with other clients. No need to worry about me.”
He’d gone through this with his family and assured them he wasn’t going to put himself in harm's way at all.
Not just because he didn’t want to worry them, but he didn’t want to end up with another head injury. There were things in life you didn’t chance, and your brain was one of them.
“Okay. I’m going to have to trust that you know what you’re doing so that I’m not stressing.”
He’d never had a woman stress over him before. No one other than family and he wasn’t so sure how he felt about it.
“No,” he said. “It’s all good.”
“Then I only have to stress over all the women that hit on you at the gym,” she said, grinning.
“Yeah, well, that is hard to avoid, but I don’t hit back.”
“You did with me,” she said.
“Which should tell you what you need to know.”
14
Teasing Me
Guess Jonah put her in her place with that statement and she had to remind herself of that two hours later when she was in the locker room changing into her workout clothes and getting ready to jump on the treadmill.
They’d sat there and talked after their food was taken away. They did end up getting a dessert so they had a reason to remain. She got the feeling he didn’t eat sweets much, but she loved them. Since she knew she was going to come here after, she didn’t feel so bad about it.
