Difficult Men

ROWAN’S POV

I sit with Roland for twenty minutes before Vance comes to find me.

Twenty minutes isn’t long enough for everything I want to say to a man who is lying in a hospital bed with tubes in his arms and machines counting his heartbeats.

But twenty minutes is what I have because we’re leaving Alaska today and there’s a list of things that need doing before we board that plane.

Vance has been