Her Christmas Soldier by Hope Ford EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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CASSIE
“HOW DID I let you talk me into this?” I say into the car. I have my phone
on Bluetooth, talking to my sister, Alison.
“Uh, because I wasn’t going to let you sit around here and mope, that’s
why.” She snorts.
“I wasn’t moping,” I lie to her. Obviously I was moping. Actually I was
downright about to go out of my mind.
“Cass, you know that you couldn’t have set here in our Christmassy filled
house, opening Christmas gifts and making cookies knowing that Gavin was
at his house alone. Let’s be honest. It didn’t take much pushing to get you to
go there.”
She’s right. I know she’s right. I would have gone crazy knowing that
Gavin Dawson was alone for Christmas. I pull to the side of the road when I
get to his street. “I’m on his street,” I tell her, almost holding my breath.
She gasps, and I hear her clapping her hands together excitedly. “Oh,
Cassie, this is so exciting!”
I just shake my head and roll my eyes. “Ya know, you are probably
supposed to be talking me out of this, right? I’m going to a man’s house, one
that I’ve never met and offering to stay a few days with him to bring him
Christmas cheer. Like, any other sister would be dead set against this.”
“Cassie, we’ve been over this. You’ve been talking to him for over a year
now. He’s a decorated soldier that is coming home for Christmas. I’ve read
all your emails, well most of them anyway, and he seems harmless–“
“Harmless! Ha! He’s a trained to kill soldier. You don’t know he’s
harmless,” I huff at her.
“Fine, come on home then. If you truly think you should be scared of
him, then turn the car around and come home.”
I hold my hands over my face. I know he’s not harmless. But he’s a good
man. A year of emailing back and forth would have indicated if he was some
kind of psycho or something. He’s not. He’s a good man.
“No, I’m going. I have to,” I tell her. I don’t have to explain it to her. She
gets it.
“Good for you, sis. I know you’re nervous, but you’re going to be fine.
I’m going to miss spending Christmas with you, but this is definitely more
important.”
Which reminds me. I cover my smirk with a cough. “I’m having your
Christmas present delivered to you. Actually, it should be there any minute,
so I’m going to let you go.”
“Wait, Christmas present, what are you talking about?”
I hear the doorbell ring, and I can’t stop the wide smile from forming.
“That’s probably it. I love you, sis. I’ll text you later.”
I hit the hang up button and look at the road in front of me. It’s starting to
snow, and already the roads are covered. What are you doing, Cassie? He
lives a half mile up the road. You can do this.
Needing some motivation, I open the email app on my phone and go to
the Gavin Dawson folder. As soon as I do, I go straight to the email I’ve been
rereading for weeks.
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