The Majors' Holiday Hideaway by Caro Carson

Author:Caro Carson [Carson, Caro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Harlequin - Special Edition
ISBN: 9781488093944
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Aiden watched India’s profile as she pulled into Tom and Helen’s drive. She had driven hard to get here, yanking off her hoop earrings when the wind had tangled her hair in them. The wind and the drive hadn’t cleared her mind. She was frowning. Still.

A work truck was in the space where the Jeep was usually parked. Two ladders were angled against one side of the house, one man topping each.

“Gutters today,” India said. It was the first thing she’d said since lunch.

Worst goddamn lunch of his life.

How can you even think that? Remember eating in the hospital cafeteria?

He sighed and looked at his ringless left hand. That was one thing about being a widower: he’d always have a heart-wrenching loss to compare all other losses to. It pissed him off most of the time, but right now, it gave him perspective. He wasn’t any worse off than he’d been before lunch. This morning, he’d had three more nights with India ahead of him.

He still did.

He lifted his gaze to her profile. She was beautiful, windblown, healthy. She was a pleasure to spend time with out of bed. She was ecstasy in bed. If the timing had been different, if this was a different year and he’d never been anything but a single man, they wouldn’t have talked about meeting families yet. They wouldn’t have talked about children at all, not on their fourth day in one another’s lives. They were lovers and becoming friends, but he’d tried to switch tracks as if they’d already become more. Perhaps they hadn’t, not yet, but she was still his—for three more nights.

If she’d speak to him.

She did, turning to him, perfectly polite. “Do you want to come inside? They could be hammering on the roof awhile. If you needed time at your own house to get anything done, this is probably a good time for it. You’ll avoid a headache. I could drive you over, if you don’t want to walk the bridge. I’m sorry. I should have asked you that sooner.”

“Do I want to come inside?” How can you even ask that?

They had three days. He’d been trying to get more, but the bottom line was that only so much more was possible, whether she dated fathers or not.

Testing things out as a couple with his children had been a pipe dream. Working toward becoming a family of four instead of three? Foolish.

His children weren’t the only obstacle. Even if he and India could be a couple instead of a family, their future was limited. Aiden didn’t believe for a minute that India spent her days writing speeches for generals in Danish. She was too sharp for that.

She had some kind of extraordinary language skill that the US Army valued, and she would not be able to move here. She’d be in the service at least another eight years. With her skill set, she could remain on active duty longer if she chose to, almost certainly.

They’d be apart for eight years after this week.

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