All of Me by Jeannie Moon

Author:Jeannie Moon [Moon, Jeannie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
ISBN: 9781951190279
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2019-08-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Jennings College wasn’t a big school, but it was one of the most picturesque colleges Jack had ever seen. Set on the grounds of a former Gold Coast estate, on a clear day a person could stand on the great lawn and see straight across Long Island Sound to Connecticut. He’d spent his own college years at University of Pennsylvania. The views weren’t nearly as good, but he enjoyed his time there. He was the standard trust fund kid in a sea of trust fund kids.

He was considered the atypical Miller in that he didn’t follow the expected path. His oldest brother, Doug, was a Marine Corps aviator. He’d gone to the Naval Academy, graduated with honors, and had just been promoted to lieutenant colonel. Jack figured eventually his big brother would have a star on his shoulder. Adam was an All-Pro quarterback who had been on every team’s wish list until he destroyed his magic shoulder in a car accident. He’d lived a fast life, and his career had ended because of it. Their younger sister, Natalie, was the artist. She painted, designed, photographed… if there was a visual, Nat was your girl.

But Jack defied the family boxes. He wondered if it was just that his family didn’t understand what he did. In the Army, he’d been an intelligence officer. While Doug was deployed to a war zone or a ship, Jack was a phantom, moving between locations all over the world, sometimes without any notice. He’d gotten in more than his share of hot water with his family because of it, but he couldn’t help that. His work, then and now, was often top secret. He couldn’t talk about it if he wanted to.

Staring past the library, Jack let himself get lost in the view of the Sound. The breeze kept the temperature in check and felt good against his skin. Not nearly as good as Lilly felt this morning when she kissed him, but pretty damn good.

Just when he thought he had her figured out, she went and threw him all off balance. Not that he didn’t like it—Jack most certainly did. Memories of the kiss in the boathouse came flooding back, with even more possibilities attached. Everything about her fit him, but he didn’t know what to do. Lilly had been though a lot more than she was telling, which meant he had to tread lightly. The woman was a knot of vulnerabilities, and Jack intended to be careful.

“Jack!”

Turning, he saw his future sister-in-law crossing the stone terrace next to the library. Mia was the head reference librarian in humanities at the Miller Library, named after his grandfather. Her job there was how she and his brother met last year.

“Hey, gorgeous. How are you holding up with all the excitement on campus?”

“Eh. I just hope they’re gone before the kids move back into the dorms. It will be chaos if they aren’t.”

Jack could see the big white tent set up on the far side of the campus lawn, near the student union.

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