To the Limit (Uniformly Hot!) by Jo Leigh

Author:Jo Leigh
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-07-01T21:00:00+00:00

10

WHATEVER SAM HAD THOUGHT Emma was going to say, it wasn’t that. He’d thought their marriage could withstand anything. Sometimes he’d wondered how Emma could deal with Danny’s absences and wild streak. Or if she suspected he might not have been faithful. Or even why Danny would choose to hang out with pilots instead of his wife, but he figured they’d worked out their own lives and it wasn’t his business. “You’ve never told anyone?”

Emma shook her head slowly, her large eyes dark and wide. But it was the way she was playing with her hands that let him know just how nervous she was about her confession. Since they’d reconnected, Sam hadn’t noticed her fidgeting with her fingers like she used to back in the day.

“I’ve felt so guilty over it,” she said, her voice catching.

“Oh, Emma. I’m sorry things had been rough for you. Even sorrier that you had to carry that burden on your own.”

Her lips parted in a sigh, but her body didn’t relax.

Wrapping his arms around her, pressing her close with her cheek on his chest, he rocked her gently.

“He was a good man,” she mumbled, her breath leaching through the fabric of his T-shirt. “He loved me. He did. I never doubted that.” She gripped the back of his shirt. “He didn’t understand that I got lonely sometimes. That I was hoping for a family. Mostly, though, I was tired of being so low in his priorities.”

Sam held her even tighter. “I loved Danny like a brother, still do. But he had an ego on him. He craved the spotlight like he craved adrenaline. Hard to compete with that.”

Her nod was tiny, but her hands loosened, so he knew something was getting through.

“The important thing now is for you to stop feeling guilty about wanting the kind of life you deserve. You’re amazing, Emma, and you’ll be a great mother. I can see you with a couple of kids. Danny did love you, you’re right. But I think he loved being a fighter pilot even more.”

She leaned back, looked up into his eyes. “Really? You knew that?”

Sam nodded, not wanting to tell her that he understood too well that Danny lived for flying. All three of them had. If Sam had married young he probably would have acted the same way, even though he’d like to think otherwise. “He did the best he could. I think he would have been sad to hear you’d wanted a divorce, but he would have understood it, too.”

“I’d like to believe that.”

He kissed her nose. “Believe it. Whatever else, he’d want you happy. That I can swear to.”

She smiled at him, and he bent to kiss her. He licked away the hint of tears on her lips, but he didn’t press. More than anything he ached to take her to bed, to comfort her and please her. But she’d just unloaded a heavy pack, and if she needed some time to recuperate then—

“Take me to bed, Sam,” she said, her lips a scant inch from his own.

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