The Navy Seal's Promise by Soraya Lane

Author:Soraya Lane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-09-26T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Saskia was struggling to keep her eyes off Luke. Or stop thinking about him. Or wondering how the hell she’d ended up with him escorting her home.

She bit down on her lip, pain resurfacing when she thought about what home meant. Because she knew how excited Jack had been about her coming home – he’d been marking the days off his calendar, just like she had. And all that talk earlier about why she’d joined the military in the first place, of leaving her son, was still bothering her.

“You doing okay there?”

Luke’s deep voice made her look up. He was glancing over at her, eyes darting between her face and the road.

“Yeah,” she said, but even pretending was an effort.

“Thinking about your son?” he asked.

“How did you guess?”

He just smiled. “Would you mind passing me some water? I have a bottle in my bag.”

She unzipped his overnight bag and pulled out the bottle, unscrewing the top before passing it to him.

“You know, I spoke to him just before I boarded the plane,” Saskia told Luke, watching as he guzzled the water, Adam’s apple bobbing, lips parted. She tried to look away and couldn’t. “He said he was more excited about me coming home than Santa coming down the chimney.”

Luke passed the water back to her and she resealed it and sipped from her own.

“Sounds like that kid already knows how to work his mama.”

“Yeah,” she said, laughing back at him. “Yeah, maybe he does.”

“And his dad?” Luke asked. “You said he isn’t around anymore.”

“Jack is the most incredible kid, and not a day goes by that I don’t wonder why his dad can’t see that.” She sighed. “He left a couple of years ago, moved to California for a new job, and he’s better known for sending birthday cards than he is for ever showing up to see his son.”

Luke touched her thigh lightly, reaching over, and she could feel the warmth right through her jeans. “You know you deserve way better than that, don’t you?” he asked.

Saskia’s heart was beating so loud it was echoing in her head. “He’d like me to think otherwise.”

She tried not to frown as Luke withdrew his hand, because there was something about him touching her that made her think all sorts of things that she was out of practice at thinking about.

“Well, know so. If you say Jack’s a great kid, then I’ll put money on it that he is. And you?” Their eyes met before he looked back at the road, hands visibly gripping the wheel tighter than before. “You deserve a man who’d never even think of walking out on you, let alone do it.”

The air between them had changed, like it had gone from a settled sunny afternoon to a storm brewing low in the sky.

“Luke?”

He raised his eyebrows but didn’t look at her again, the snowflakes suddenly falling with more insistence on the windshield, making it hard for him to see.

“Shit, hold on.”

She did as she was told, obeying Luke’s command.

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