“It’s a risk, but I’m willing to take it.” “I was going to stay in the military for life anyway. “You are not to walk into the AMEDD recruiter.” “What look, Major?” I had to smile at our equal footing. He took my chin and pointed it up to face him. I would have overlooked the broken pieces for the sake of seeing the man in front of me. If I hadn’t known better, I would have forgotten to worry about him. He was so strong, so clear, so commanding, even with a part of him stuffed into a dark bag. The way he looked at me, I could kind of believe it. He got close to my face and put up his finger. “If I deploy, he’s staying gone.” He gathered my hands in his. “As soon as I read that letter, as soon as he read it, he crawled back into the hole he came from.” The smile went from rueful to pleased, and I had to admit he’d been more himself in the past day than he’d been since his alter ego had appeared. He put his hands on my shoulders and slid them down to my biceps.
Too brilliant to be conned, too loyal to go back on a promise. The basket of clothespins was a slap in the face, and the steady hush of the water heater was a mockery.Ĭaden looked green in the fluorescent light, and his eyes were flat gray.
Fuck you, dryer, for being half an inch higher. How dare the washing machine be white when this was happening. Its base functionality seemed absurd against the backdrop of my husband going to war. He’d have called Franco to do it, but the number was on the. Anthony would pay it when he paid the utilities. If you haven’t read the FREE prequel yet, you should do that before reading this book.īefore he left, he made sure I was set. If any person or event in this book seems too real to be true, it’s luck, happy coincidence, or wish-fulfillment on the reader’s part.
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