Sentimental Journey (Home Front - Book #1) by Barbara Bretton

Author:Barbara Bretton [Bretton, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: World War II, Women-HomeFront, Romance
Publisher: Free Spirit Press
Published: 2014-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Sometimes a guy just got lucky.

You could go your whole life looking for the reasons some men got all the breaks while others came up empty and never come close to understanding why God made the choices He did.

When Johnny woke up a little after dawn on Christmas morning, it took him a full minute to realize he wasn’t dead and gone to heaven. In all of his twenty years he’d never known a moment as completely happy as the moment he opened his eyes and saw Catherine Wilson asleep in the armchair beside him. A bright blue blanket covered her from ankle to chin. Only the cuff of her yellow pajamas peeked out at the bottom—along with her delicate feet.

He felt funny watching her sleep. Sleep was a private thing, and he knew she probably wouldn’t like knowing he was looking at her, but he couldn’t help it. It had been a long time since he’d seen anything as beautiful as the sight of her long honey-colored hair drifting across her shoulders. He couldn’t have turned away from that sight if General Eisenhower himself had issued the command.

Especially since for the past year and a half he’d carried around another, more painful, image of the girl now asleep in the chair...

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