Mine Tomorrow by Jackie Braun

Author:Jackie Braun [Braun, Jackie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781474008822
Publisher: Mills & Boon
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Devin seemed genuinely surprised to learn that she had been planning to pawn the antique timepiece, which had been Gregory’s grandmother’s. Well, that made two of them. Maybe he shouldn’t have been. Even during a war, when people had tightened their belts, a quality custom piece such as this one would fetch a tidy sum.

And she would have needed money if she had been leaving him. The mere thought was a painful kick in the gut, but he was unable to banish it.

During their separation, he’d received dozens of letters from her, but all of those had come during the first few months. After May, he had received no correspondence, nothing at all to let him know that she was all right. Nor was there any word to reassure him that she was awaiting his return as eagerly as he was.

At first, Gregory assumed it was because he’d been transferred to another ship after the attack on the Bunker Hill. With that air craft carrier crippled and sent limping back to the United States for repairs, he’d been hastily reassigned to a destroyer until last week when his discharge papers had come through.

He’d tried contacting Devin with no success. Yesterday, when Gregory had returned to New York, he’d rushed to their apartment in a panic. He’d found all of her clothes and effects inside, but no sign of her. Dan, the doorman, had been as baffled as Gregory as to her whereabouts. He’d handed Gregory a stack of newspapers and mail that had gone uncollected. Mail that included Gregory’s letters.

“I saw her leave one day last spring—it must have been May—and she never came back, Mr. Prescott. No forwarding address, no nothin’. She didn’t take any luggage, but I thought maybe she’d gone to stay with family while you were away.”

Her sister, he wondered now, but at the time he’d asked the doorman, “You didn’t think to contact the police and report her missing?”

“The rent on the apartment was paid up, so no…” The other man had shrugged apologetically.

At that point, Gregory hadn’t worried that Devin had left him; he’d worried that something had happened to her. Something horrible. Something finite. Something foretold in those unsettling dreams of which she’d spoken.

What if something keeps us apart? Something that neither of us has the ability to control?

When he’d heard about the celebration going on in Times Square, he’d taken a cab there, hoping beyond hope that she might be in the crowd. He’d scanned countless faces before he’d spied her. When she’d smiled at him and had raised her hand, it had been all Gregory could do to remain upright. His relief had been so great that his knees had threatened to buckle.

She was there. She was all right. At the time, that had been all that mattered.

For the past several hours, he’d put off asking the questions that begged to be answered. But now, with this latest revelation about the watch, he needed to know.

Outside the repair shop, he stopped her on the sidewalk before she could enter the café.

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