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Damaged Blurb
Freedom isn’t free.
Staff Sergeant Austin
Chandler learned this lesson well. Dealing with the devastating truth that his
military career is over, he is discharged from the Marines and returns home
from fighting the war in Afghanistan with battle scars he fears will never
heal. But the truth is a bitter pill to swallow when he arrives at the airport
and realizes his wife has abandoned him when he needed her the most. Broken in
body as well as in spirit, Austin suffers not only from the slow-healing scars
on his back, but also the wounds that her desertion has left on his troubled
heart.
Until a chance
encounter with a beautiful artist leaves him wondering if perhaps some things
are meant to be. Trisha Morgan has secrets she is desperately wants to hide. With
a troubled past and abandonment issues of her own, she fears love only leads to
rejection and pain.
But can two wounded
souls break through the battered barriers of each other’s hearts?
Damaged Excerpt
Trisha had thought
that she would never see him again. Even though he wasn’t hers, he had never
been hers; she had always thought of him as her marine.
That airplane flight
to Texas had changed her life for the better. It had opened her eyes, in more
ways than one. Because of him, she had realized that she had never truly loved
Ty and she never would have been good enough for him. Or for his family.
Trisha Morgan had
often fantasized about what would happen if she ran across the tall,
broad-shouldered, good-looking Marine again. They had had an instant
connection, they had both felt it. But since both of them had been attached,
nothing more than a new friendship could evolve between the two of them.
Austin Chandler
walking in on her while she was as naked as the day she was born was not one of
the many scenarios that she had envisioned.
Wet skin. Long legs
that seemed to go on forever. Waxed bikini line. Delicately-painted red
toenails. Pink-tinged, erect nipples. Large, full breasts still wet from a
recent shower. Small droplets of water that he could lick off drop by delicious
drop.
She shrieked with
surprise, her hands drawing her towel even tighter around her shaking body.
A sudden thought
occurred to her.
He wasn’t wearing a
ring.
She screamed the
sound sharp enough to shatter glass. Wrapping a fluffy, blue towel around her
slender body, she paused, apparently not knowing what to say.
When Austin was
finally able to raise his eyes from admiring her ass…ets, his dark brown gaze
slowly travelled up her perfectly proportioned body before focusing on her
flushed, embarrassed face. It was her. The girl from the plane over three years
ago.
Their eyes met and
time seemed to stand still. This was fate, destiny, kismet.
Trisha stood there
trembling. She had imagined this moment for so long, yet when it finally came,
it was nothing like she had expected. She had never been one of those girls who
hopped into the nearest bed with a complete and total stranger.
But Austin wasn’t a
stranger, she struggled to remind herself. She had met him before. He was her
hero, her knight in camouflage. He was her marine. She smiled. She wondered how
he would feel if she were to confess that little secret to him. Would he be
upset or would he be flattered?
A small hint of a
smile played on her lips and he dropped his duffel bag onto the ugly, stained
orange carpet of the hotel room floor. He had dreamed of this moment, he had
longed for it. He had longed for her. On the bed, against the wall, on the tile
of the bathroom shower stall, any way he could have her.
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