Chapter 41

He waved her compliment away. “It’s easy when you have a hairdresser, a personal trainer, a chef, blah, blah, blah. Sit down. It’s great to see you!” He tugged her to the sofa and she sat beside him. “Since we haven’t had the chance to catch up in a couple of weeks, tell me how your dad has been?”

“You know the Colonel. Always busy. Always running a tight unit. He’s been all over the world lately. He’ll be heading home next week for a mini-vacation. He hasn’t had one in over a year.”

Jesse nodded. “That man was always driven. Remember that week at the lake we all spent the summer he guarded me?”

Remember? That’s where she and Jesse had fallen for each other, and they’d started talking about the possibilities of a future together.

Nothing had changed since then. Yet everything had. Jesse had drifted into a wild lifestyle, according to the tabloids. Now,

Deke kept intruding in Kimber’s thoughts. Her stomach was in a constant knot of pain. Standing in fron