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I don’t care if it’s a day or a week or a month I’ll wait I promise to be here when you come home"

Her words were so earnest that his heart expanded His et any words out, which wasn’t a good thing because Shelby’s face fell as she obviously took his silence as a rejection

"Yeah, that was probably du suire, huh?" Her gaze drifted to the helicopter roaring behind theet out of your way and--"

He kissed her Just kissed her, right there in front of a helicopter full of SEALs a feho

"It wasn’t dumb," he murmured into her lips "And I’m not mad, Shel I was before, but God knows I can never stay mad at you" A drop of rain fell directly on her freckled nose and he leaned down to kiss it away "I’ to screw around on you like your assle boyfriend did, and now that I know you’ll be waiting here for et back, I’ll work my ass off to make sure I come houarantee"

"Good" She leaned up on her tiptoes and brushed her lips over his, then gently pushed hio"

"Yeah, I really should" Yet he still couldn’t stop hi her once ue

"Go," she ordered, looking breathless and happy and so ridiculously hot he was almost teet on the chopper

But she gave hiruet back"

"Good"

He’d only taken a few steps toward the waiting helicopter when he stopped and turned to shoot her a devilish look "Hey, you know that ice thing you were doing last night?" he called "When you were rubbing it all over yourself and pretty , she waited expectantly for hi out the ice again I don’t care if there’s a heat wave or not I’ a couple of ice cubes all over your very un-vanilla self, all right?"

"Is that a prorinned and repeated his earlier words "It’s a guarantee"