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Although she couldn’t possibly really smell him, she’d swear her nostrils filled with the musky scent of his skin, a scent once so faain, she amped by unwanted memories of when he’d starred in a daily role in her life

“Your parents must be proud”

Amelia didn’t answer All four Stockton children had been raised to never shoeakness to the eneood front when Cole had du sister hadn’t been able to “Suck it up and iven situation If she had, she’d have moved on, dated Clara hadn’t There’d been no one since Cole Amelia’s heart ached at the enormity of her sister’s pain, and her role in it At her own pain All at the mercy of this man’s careless hand

The others in the sick ward eyed theaze bore into A, but for what she didn’t have a clue For her to melt under his intense blue laser vision? For her to tense to the point she cracked into a thousand pieces?

Ha, he could wait until hell froze over

She’d had enough

“We’ve patients to see,” she re” She turned to the corpsman who eyed Cole with a bit of hero-worship She recalled the look well “Richard, since you and Dr Stanley are acquainted, why don’t you show hiery suite? I’m sure it’s similar to ones he’s worked from in the past, but he’ll want to familiarize hietting started in the ”

Cole’s gaze lingered on her, but Aain Later, no doubt, they’d talk Not that she wanted to talk to hi so when they’d be forced to work together for the length of their deployment?

Hoould she deal with hih there were five thousand crewwas on board, she wouldn’t be able to keep fro with Cole Not in the medical ward

What were the odds of being stuck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with the last ain?

And yet, even with that thought, she couldn’t deny that she’d always known their paths would cross again

How could it not when they’d left so much unfinished business between them?

Amelia Stockton in the flesh shahter How had he forgotten how her h cheekbones accented her heart-shaped face? How her dark hair beckoned his fingers to free the up-swept locks? How just being near her turned his insides outward?

No, he hadn’t forgotten that Neither had he forgotten how fiercely loyal the Stockton siblings were, how they’d been trained to be soldier tough froh Amelia’s father had been civil when their paths had crossed recently, Cole suspected the majority of the Stocktons despised him

All but Clara