Holiday Homecoming and A Soldier for Christmas: Holiday Homecoming\A Soldier for Christmas by Jillian Hart

Author:Jillian Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Easter Sunday

The McKaslin family gathered in the ICU waiting area. Ryan wasn’t surprised to see everyone there but Kirby, who’d stayed behind to keep watch over the children. Only the adults were there—the sisters and their husbands, the grandmother and grandfather, in various states of dress. Those who had been pulled out of their beds wore pajamas underneath their coats.

The oldest sister, Karen, still wearing the fuzzy slippers she’d received Kristin’s call in, spotted him first. She clung to her husband’s steadying hand, fear stark on her face.

Kristin, holding a sleeping Emily, rose quietly, careful not to waken the child in her arms. It was a sweet sight. Ryan’s hopes warmed. Yeah, he had hope. Because there was only one outcome to this. And he was going to do whatever it took to make it right between him and Kristin.

“We haven’t heard anything.” She kept her voice a low whisper. “No one’s said anything. Dad is trying to get some answers, but he’s not back yet.”

“I saw him. He’s talking to the doctor, who should be out to talk to you all shortly. She’s all right.”

Relief shuddered through her. He felt it, just as he could feel her pain. And her love. “It’s because of you. You were there. You knew what to do.”

“I’m handy to have around. I was hoping you might have noticed that by now.” Gently, because now wasn’t the time, he ran his hand over her hair. He’d never seen her look so disheveled. Her hair was tangled and had dried however the wind had last left it. Her mascara was smeared away and her eyes were red from tears.

He’d never loved her more.

“Just relax, okay?” He inched close enough to rest her cheek on his chest, loving the way she leaned against him.

It was sweet, holding her. And Emily, too, sleeping so soundly. He just opened his heart to the moment. To Kristin. And he felt the love inside, intense and brilliant and overwhelming.

Love of a brighter hue than he’d ever imagined. So radiant, his soul ached with the power of it.

As if she felt it, too, her fingers curled into his shirt. She held on to him as if she never wanted to let go.

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