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RAEANNE THAYNE
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“I know that. But I have great faith in your stubbornness
to get through whatever comes along.”
“I’m glad you have faith in me, because I’ve lost
mine somewhere along the way.”
“You’ll find it. I’ll help you. And in the meantime,
you can just hang onto mine. I love you, Maggie. With
your leg, without your leg. On your good days and
on your grumpiest. Whatever comes along, I want to
help you through it if you’ll give me the chance.”
“Are more of those massages part of the deal?”
His grin was slow and sexy. “Oh, you can count on it.”
Some time later, she drew her mouth away from his
and cupped his face in her hand. “I came back to Pine
Gulch thinking my life was over. Everything I knew
about myself was gone, destroyed in a moment. I’ve
always considered myself pretty strong, tough enough
to handle just about anything. I was a soldier and a
nurse, two jobs that require the toughest of the tough.
But being injured, losing my leg, this was so much
harder than I ever would have imagined.”
“I hate when you’re so hard on yourself. Anybody
would have had the same reaction, Maggie.”
She let out a breath. “I told you I came home to hide
out. That’s what I thought I wanted, to be somewhere safe
and comfortable where no one demanded anything of
me. But you wouldn’t let me cower there. Since the day
I came back, you’ve been dragging me out of my narrow
little comfort zone and back into the wide world.”
She drew her mouth over his slowly, gently. “Thank
you for that. It’s much scarier out here, I have to admit.
But I wouldn’t miss it for anything.”