The Soldier's Homecoming: A Sweet Soldier Romance by Soraya Lane

Author:Soraya Lane [Lane, Soraya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-28T23:00:00+00:00

It was like he was fighting for his life.

The idea of losing Penny was akin to a life-support machine being taken from a terminal patient. Like a limb being torn from a still-warm body.

But he was tougher than this. Had the will and strength to do something, anything to give it his best shot.

To try to survive this.

Hell, he knew tough. He’d been in the depths of hell in the cockpit of a helicopter more times than he could count.

He’d been a helicopter pilot with the navy for almost all his adult life.

Surviving was in his blood.

“Thanks for dinner, Daniel. It was…lovely.”

Penny was making an effort and he appreciated it. He’d half expected her to walk off that plane and slap him. To yell and curse and throw him out of the house.

But that wasn’t her. She was hurting, and it hurt him to know he was the cause of her pain.

She might be dying a slow, painful death on the inside, but Penny was strong. Women didn’t survive to rise through the ranks in the U.S. Army without being intelligent, strong and resourceful.

And Penny was all three.

“Do you want to take a walk before we drive home?”

She looked about to hesitate.

Then surprised him.

“Yeah,” she said. “Let’s.”

Daniel gave the waiter a wave as they left, following Penny down the stairs and into the slightly chilly air outside.

It had been warm when they’d arrived, but the sun was long down and the weather coolish.

“Pen…”

“Daniel...”

They laughed, the second time that night they’d done it.

“Snap,” he said.

But he waited for her to go this time, wasn’t going to interrupt her.

“I was just going to say that I don’t want to fight anymore while I’m here.”

He thrust his hands into the pockets of his jeans because he didn’t know what else to do with them.

“I don’t want to either, Pen.”

She wrapped her hands about herself and he had to resist the urge to warm her with his arm. To hold her to him and steal the cold from her body.

“I’m not here long enough for us to waste the time arguing.” She sucked in a deep breath. “I don’t know if we’ll ever work together again as a couple, Daniel, but I’m not going to say no. Because I don’t like living with regrets, and I don’t want to wish we’d remained civil, that we could have been something great again, but that I was too pig-headed to believe that you were sorry. That I was too self-absorbed to see the problems you were facing.”

“Nothing will ever erase what I did, Penny, but I want you to know…”

Penny held up her hand to silence him. He obeyed.

“I need to walk,” she said.

Daniel sped up to stay abreast with her fast pace.

“And I need to know the details.”

He groaned, like his insides were being turned inside out

“Penny, no.”

She stopped and grabbed his hand, forcing him to spin and stop.

“That wasn’t a question, Daniel. I need to know about it. If I don’t know, then I can’t process it.

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