The Spitfire Girls by Soraya M. Lane

Author:Soraya M. Lane [Lane, Soraya M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

Hours later, Ruby waited in her room for Tom. She wondered if he would come, if he’d be able to sneak away without being seen or reprimanded; maybe she was hoping for the impossible. She shivered as she waited, more from anticipation than from cold.

She went to the small window and rubbed away the condensation that had clouded the glass. Rain was falling hard on the concrete now. She doubted she’d be stuck for long, but if she was going to be marooned anywhere, it couldn’t get any better than being on base with Tom. In fact, if it had been any of the other airfields, she’d probably have just insisted on flying back. But she was exhausted. Her eyelids were drooping and her body was lethargic, probably because she’d hardly slept the night before, tossing and turning as she’d worried about her big day. She leaned into the window with a blanket around her shoulders, listening to the pitter-patter on the tin roof. She shut her eyes.

Tap, tap, tap.

Her eyes popped open.

A loud knock echoed through the room and Ruby ran to the door. Tom’s hair was wet – droplets of rain were even caught in his eyelashes – and she grinned back at him as he gave her a big, wide smile.

‘Tom!’ she said, hauling him in and quickly pushing the door shut. ‘Get in here.’

He stood there, his grin slowly fading. ‘I can’t believe you’re actually here,’ he said, shaking his head and sending water flying. ‘I can’t believe, after everything, that we’re standing here together.’

Ruby lifted one hand and touched his jaw, tracing along it as she stared up at him. She suddenly didn’t feel tired anymore. And she didn’t want to talk anymore, either.

He slipped his arms around her, circling her waist. ‘The guys are still talking about you. You’d think they’d just seen an elephant land a plane.’

‘You’re comparing me to an elephant?’

Tom chuckled. ‘Oh, I just mean they’re acting like, well, as if it’s so unusual . . .’

‘Stop talking and kiss me,’ she muttered, standing on tiptoe and wrapping her arms around his neck.

Tom’s lips met hers, softly at first, brushing like silk back and forth. Ruby shut her eyes and bathed in the warmth of him, his embrace, the way he deepened their kiss and left her gasping.

‘We only have one night,’ he said. ‘All this time I’ve been imagining our first night together, wondering when I was ever going to see you again, and then you just drop from the sky like an angel.’

She touched her forehead to his chest and listened to his steady heartbeat, loving the feel of his body against hers. ‘I still can’t believe I was the first one.’

‘To fly a four-engine bomber?’ he asked, tucking his fingers beneath her chin to raise her head.

‘Yes,’ she said softly. ‘Lizzie thought it was going to be her, but they chose me. Imagine what your poor mother would say. I mean, how unladylike!’

Tom kissed her forehead before pulling her tight to him again.

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