Coming Home
Short Story in SEAL of My Dreams Anthology
By Jami Alden
Bell Bridge Books - 2011
Contemporary Romance
Nick DeMarco had come, but it was too late. Nine years had passed, and he should have come to visit his mother. Instead, he was attending her funeral. It had been too painful to return. His mother had visited him, but Nick couldn't risk seeing Sarah Decker. The woman who had been his friend, lover, and future. Instead, she had resented his decision to join the military, and left him for a safer future.
Time and reality changes a person's perspective, and Nick doesn't like what he learns about himself. He had chosen the Navy over Sarah's protestations, never taking her fears into consideration. It might be difficult to realize he had contributed so much to their parting, but he had no difficulties in allowing Sarah back in to his life.
Now, he hoped that they might once again have a future.
Coming Home was a touching short story of two people who should never have parted, finally coming back together. Nick has to come to terms with how his uncompromising stubbornness cost them nine years together. Short but powerful, this story is a fitting addition to the SEAL of My Dreams Anthology.
SEAL of My Dreams Anthology includes: Coming Home by Jami Alden, Baby, I'm Back by Stephanie Bond, SEALed Fates by Kylie Brant, Going Dark by Helen Brenna, Finding Home by HelenKay Dimon, SEALed With a Kiss by Cindy Gerard, Panama Jack by Tara Janzen, Wrapped and SEALed by Leslie Kelly, Worth the Risk by Elle Kennedy, Twenty-One Hours by Alison Kent, Not Waving But Drowning by Jo Leigh, Her Secret Pirate by Gennita Low, SEALed by Fate by Marliss Melton, Signed, SEALed, Delivered...I'm Yours by Christine Ridgway, Dog Heart by Barbara Samuel, Whirlwind by Roxanne St. Claire, Holding On by Stephanie Tyler, Letters to Ellie by Loreth Anne White
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