SEAL It With a Kiss by Rogenna Brewer

Author:Rogenna Brewer [Brewer, Rogenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781460859971
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1998-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

1159 Saturday

BACHELOR OFFICERS’ QUARTERS,

Coronado, CA

CLOSING THE DOOR to her room, Tabby kicked off her heels and made a mad stumbling dash through the dark for the ringing telephone.

“Hello?” She flicked on the bedside lamp.

“Talk to me, Tabitha.”

Her heart started beating again. “I wasn’t sure you’d call tonight.” But she’d been hoping. She sank to the bed with relief.

“I wasn’t sure you’d pick up.”

A long pause followed. She didn’t know what to say about earlier. They never should have danced. But he’d looked incredible this evening—like Prince Charming military style. And she’d been caught up in the attraction, with no thought of consequences—especially to him. Only a wall had separated them and the Chief of SEALs. “You apologized to me, but I never apologized to you.” Instead she’d run.

To regroup, not escape.

“It’s not necessary. You have every right to have me hung from the Navy’s highest yardarm. I’m responsible for my own actions.”

Responsible but not to blame.

“Door locked?” he asked, going through his nightly security check.

“Yes.”

“Window?”

“They’re both locked.”

“Keep ‘em that way.”

And if she didn’t? Would he rappel down the side of her building and into her room? If he wanted to get in a lock wouldn’t stop him. Though maybe it would make him think twice.

Something they both needed to do.

“Good night, Tabitha.” He paused, then said, “This isn’t hypothetical. I want to know you in every way possible. But you have to understand—I’m caught between wanting you and wearing the uniform.”

She waited for the click before letting out her breath and hanging up. Wrapping her arms around the pillow, she rolled onto her side.

The proverbial rock and hard place had them both trapped. Because she was caught between wanting to be a Navy SEAL and wanting him. Was wanting him enough? She ticked off his faults. Controlling, overbearing, sexist...though there was a part of him that wasn’t any of those things.

Still too many women gave up their dreams for men, including her mother. She wasn’t going to be one of those women.

But that didn’t explain why she left her window unlocked when she went to bed.

“Hey, Tigger. What ya doin’?” Her father sank to the floor beside her.

She continued dressing Barbie in G.L Joe’s uniform. “Barbie’s going off to war. ”

“She is? What about old Joe there?”

“Oh, he’s going to stay home with the babies. ”

“I think he’d like that. I know I would But I came to tell you, Doddy’s got to go away again. ”

Tabby dropped Barbie and threw her arms around her father. “I don’t want you to go, Daddy.”

He hugged her to him. “I have to.”

“But Mommy gets sad when you go. ”

“I know. Mom makes a lot of sacrifices to be with me. But that’s what love is sometimes. When I retire, I’ll make it up to her, to all of you. Now I gotta go. Be a big girl and don’t cry, I need you to take care of your mom. ”

“I’m seven. I can take care of Bowie and Zach, too. I can walk Zach to school by myself, you know.

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