Jeremy chuckled and punched Tommy’s shoulder. “Not you. Us.” He pulled Erica close to his side. “Just me and my wife.”
Tommy grimaced. “Gross. She’s pregnant. And my sister.”
“Pregnant or not, she’s still the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. And it’s been a long, long time since I saw her.”
Tommy groaned. “Yeah, yeah. Let’s go. I’ll drop you guys off and make myself scarce.”
Erica kissed Jeremy, lingering on the taste of him like an addict craving a fix. Her fingers found the throat of his fatigues and toyed with his dog tags, and the ring dangling from the chain. She pulled them out of his shirt and raised a brow. “Now that you’re home, how about we put that ring back on? I think it’s safe from the wild, woolly desert now.”
He unfastened the clasp, slipped his ring off the chain, and slid it back onto his finger. “There. Safe and sound, as promised.”
“Then that’s two promises you’ve kept.”
She kissed him, sealing her mouth to his and taking everything she’d missed over seven long months. He groaned against her mouth. His hands tightened on her hips, and he nipped roughly at her lower lip. She shuddered.
“I need you,” she whispered.
Jeremy picked up his bags and took her hand, lacing their fingers together in an unbreakable grip. “Then I suggest we hurry.”
They nearly ran toward the car. Erica couldn’t believe that in two short years, her life had gone from bleak loneliness to such utter joy. Missing Jeremy had been hard, no doubt about that. So had the nightly terror as she tossed and turned in her bed, the TV stuck on CNN and her imagination running wild. Every casualty was cause for a panic attack. Every knock on the door was the military police coming to tell her that her husband was dead. She wasn’t sure how she’d survived intact, let alone sane.
But here, now? He was home. Safe. With her.
Right where he belonged.
Acknowledgments
I’d like to thank all of my friends, family, loyal readers, and new readers for buying my books, reading them, and maybe even recommending them to your friends. Without you, I wouldn’t be doing this. Without you, my books would be lonely. Without you…there might not be any books.
I’d like to thank Adrien and the rest of the editors that put time into this book, every hour spent agonizing over the perfect word for the sentence, or the best way to turn a phrase. Without you, this would be but a shell of a book.
I’d like to thank Liz, and everyone at Entangled Publishing, for offering me the chance to share this book with the world. It means the world to me. And to all my friends in the Entangled Publishing world—keep writing, reading, editing…and just being plain old awesome.
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About the Author
Diane Alberts has always been a dreamer with a vivid imagination, but it wasn’t until 2011 that she put her pen where her brain was, and became a published author. Since receiving her first contract offer, she has yet to stop writing. Though she lives in the mountains, she really wishes she was surrounded by a hot, sunny beach with crystal clear water. She lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with her four kids, a husband, and a Senegal parrot. In the rare moments when she’s not writing, she can usually be found hunched over one knitting project or another. She is repped by her fabulous agent, Lauren Hammond of ADA Management.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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