Jessica Scott
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4/7/2015
Blurb:
He's always loved
her...
First Sergeant Gale Sorren waited a war and half a lifetime
for a chance to get stationed near the ex-wife who left him years ago. When he
finally musters the courage to see her, the life he imagined she was living was
nothing close to the reality.
She's never stopped loving
him...
Melanie never stopped worrying about Gale each time he
headed off to war. But he's never been there when she needed him and she's had
fifteen years to steel her heart against him.
But when Gale moves to Fort Hood, he finally has a chance to
make things right with Melanie and the daughter she raised without him.
Can Mel trust her heart to a man who has always let her
down?
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Excerpt:
“What if he comes here?”
“He won’t.”
“You don’t know that.”
“You’re right,” he admitted finally. He sighed heavily.
“I’ve known him a long time and this doesn’t gel with what I know of him. He's
not going to hurt you.”
“You sound so certain.” Her fingers danced over his ribs, as
though she wasn’t sure where to place her hands. “Why?”
“Because you’re mine,” he said, giving voice to the powerful
feelings he could finally identify for what they were. “And if he puts his
hands on you or our daughter, I’ll kill him.”
And then he kissed her.
It was a powerful kiss, filled with a riot of emotions that
had started building in him years ago when she’d first left him. It was a kiss
filled with fear. With uncertainty.
With desire.
He gave in to the maelstrom inside him, holding back only
enough to be certain that he wasn't crossing the line.
Mel opened to his kiss, wanting badly to push away the
sadness and the fear and the worry that had been squeezing the air from her
lungs since she’d found Gale outside her office.
There was fear in her response, a tacit admission that this
was something fleeting and yet, it was the only tangible thing between them.
He shifted then until their bodies pressed together, until
she breathed with him and felt part of her soul take flight from the bonds of
worry and sadness and daily life.
Her fingers flexed against his ribs. Gale felt the moment
she gave in to the kiss, savored the moment of her surrender. Her body relaxed
against his, fitting perfectly against his chest.
This was something good. Something pure. Untainted by the
darkness that had caused him to seek her out today, needing her when he needed
to lean. This. This was what he craved. His wife’s touch. His wife’s taste.
She was not his wife. That ugly piece of reality crashed
into him and he stiffened.
Mel felt it instantly, her body tensing. “What?”
The words lodged in his throat. There was no way he could
admit the feelings that churned inside him. That he still thought of her as his
wife after all these years.
He nipped at her bottom lip, hoping to distract her. “We
should do this more often.”
He felt her smile beneath his lips. “You think so?” There
was something light and breathless in her words.
“Very much so.” He kissed the corner of her mouth. The edge
of her jaw.
He traced the outside edge of her ear with the tip of his
tongue. Felt the pleasure of her gasp against his cheek. His teeth scraped over
her earlobe. “That’s nice,” she breathed.
“You like that?”
“Yeah.”
He closed his eyes, pulling her tight, needing the comfort
of her touch, the pleasure to drive away the darkness. He breathed in her
scent, holding her close. Her pulse scattered against his cheek and for a
moment, he simply held her.
“You make me crazy, Melanie,” he whispered.
About Jessica Scott:
USA Today Bestselling author Jessica Scott is a career army
officer, mother of two daughters, three cats and three dogs, wife to a career
NCO and wrangler of all things stuffed and fluffy. She is a terrible cook and
even worse housekeeper, but she's a pretty good shot with her assigned weapon
and someone liked some of the stuff she wrote. Somehow, her children are pretty
well adjusted and her husband still loves her, despite burned water and a messy
house.
She's also written for the New York Times At War Blog, PBS
Point of View Regarding War, and IAVA. She deployed to Iraq in 2009 as part of
OIF/New Dawn and has had the honor of serving as a company commander at Fort
Hood, Texas twice.
She's pursuing a graduate degree in Sociology in her spare
time and most recently, she's been featured as one of Esquire Magazine's
Americans of the Year for 2012.
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