Colonel Daddy by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child [Child, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Silhouette Desire
Published: 2011-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

“It was a beautiful wedding, hon,” Evie told her and reached up to kiss her cheek.

“Thanks for coming, Evie,” Kate said, and meant it. Since she had no family, and her closest friend was presently stationed in Okinawa, the wedding guests had been friends of Thomas’s. Except for Evie Bozeman.

True to form, the older woman was dressed outrageously in a lime green, knee-length skirt, topped with a lemon yellow, long-sleeved sweater. And on her feet she wore sneakers.

“That groom of yours looked good enough to eat,” Evie commented drily and let her gaze slide over the small crowd until it landed on the Colonel. He seemed to sense her stare and looked their way with a tight and, to Kate’s mind, wary smile. “Uniforms just do something to me. Always have. World War II was the best time I ever had—” She caught herself and blushed furiously. “Well, except for all the bloodshed naturally.”

“Naturally.” Kate couldn’t help smiling and was doubly pleased to have Evie there. Lord knew she’d been so busy trying to hide her nervousness all day, it felt good to laugh. To relax a bit.

“So,” Evie went on a moment later. “You’ll be moving out of the apartment now.”

And into Thomas’s home. Their home now, she thought, letting her gaze slide across the neatly landscaped yard. “Yes, this week.”

“I’ll miss you, girl.”

“You could come and visit me,” Kate said, and hoped she would.

“On base?” Evie’s silvery eyebrows wiggled dangerously. “Now there’s an idea...” Her smile and the speculative gleam in her eye would have worried Thomas.

Music swelled up from the stereo someone had dragged outside and Johnny Mathis’s smooth-as-cream voice carried over the muttered conversations.

Kate shot a look at her husband...husband, and saw that he was headed toward her, determinedly threading his way through the cluster of people standing on the covered patio. Her stomach skittered and her heartbeat pounded unsteadily. Would he always have this effect on her? she wondered. In twenty years, would she still look into his eyes and feel a slow burn ignite inside her?

“Well,” Evie murmured, “looks like you’ve got your dancing partner. Think I’ll just go find one for myself.”

In a blink she was gone, and Kate thought she detected a glimmer of relief in Thomas’s eyes when he came to a stop directly in front of her.

“I believe,” he said, “the first dance belongs to us.”

“I’m not a very good dancer, remember?” Even as she said it, she thought, stupid, stupid, stupid. She was the one who had instigated the celibacy rule. She was the one trying to make them find more than sex to bind them together. And what does she do? Introduce the memory of the last time they’d danced together.

In a flash, that night leaped into life in her mind. Candles. Dozens of candles in the Tokyo hotel room. Music drifting through the wall from the room next door and the two of them, doing a slow, careful dance in the shower.

Until she slipped, dragging him down with her in a tangle of limbs that had led to a few very interesting moments.

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