Return to Her by Alexandra O'Hurley

Author:Alexandra O'Hurley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, holiday, military, short story, contemporary, erotic romance, mf, fourth of july, alexandra ohurley, red hot and boom
Publisher: Twisted E-Publishing

Chapter Five

Mason heard the call over the airport loudspeaker, announcing they were boarding his flight. He wasn’t ready to leave. Not yet. Cassie sat beside him, nestled in the crook of his arm. She’d been right. They had wasted too much time. They’d spent the last day or so in bed, exploring one another’s bodies. She was everything he could want in a lover and more. Cassie had let him sample every inch of her and he was still hungry for more. How Dave could’ve cheated on her, he didn’t know, but he did know the man was crazy.

But Dave’s stupidity was his gain. She’d felt so right in his arms and he knew that fate had brought them together, which only made his departure all the harder.

A year’s wait before he could touch or taste her again was a sin.

Now he had her to come home to. It would make the long months and lonely nights that much easier to handle. He would write her, call her, and make sure she was taken care of in his absence.

Fear struck him. A year was a long time. What if she changed her mind and moved on? No. Cassie wouldn’t do that to him, but they didn’t have anything tying them together. They’d made no promises to one another. And he couldn’t ask her to wait. He would just have to hope she did.

“Was that your flight they just called?” she asked in a small voice. She’d been so quiet this morning. Her pale face looked up at him and he saw the dark smudges under her eyes. Cassie was exhausted, as was he. They’d not slept much the last two days.

“Yeah, sweets, it was,” he answered.

She pulled away from him and stood, her small frame somehow appearing even smaller as she hugged herself, waiting for him to rise. He saw the sadness in her eyes as she looked up at him. He understood it. It was the same emotion tightening his chest now.

Cassie made a little sound and then hugged him ferociously, with more might than he’d expected from her small body. He drew her closer, an ache forming in his chest.

He leaned down to steal a kiss, tasting her lips for the last time before his deployment. Hopefully it wouldn’t be the last kiss they’d share. The embrace went on forever, until the final boarding call was announced.

Cassie stepped back a little, tears glistening in her eyes. “You come back to me. Do you hear me?”

Mason grinned, though he was fighting back the tide of emotion he’d not expected to feel. Of course he’d known he’d miss her, but not like this. He leaned down and grabbed his duffel, flinging it over his shoulder. “Yes, ma’am. Like any good soldier, I can follow orders.”

He saluted her and leaned in for one final kiss before spinning on his heel and stalking toward check-in. Those last steps were the hardest he’d ever walked.

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