Claiming His Baby (ePub)

AN OFFICER AND NOT A GENTLEMAN

Audrey Williams

Audrey has been waiting for this moment. After months of communicating long-distance, her boyfriend, Daniel Underwood, has finally come to see her for the first time. He's a Marine officer serving in the Middle East.

Now he's standing in front of her. In the flesh. Those pictures he sent her don't do him justice. Daniel is the embodiment of her fairy tale fantasies. Tall, dashing, heroic—a modern-day knight. The man she's been waiting for all her life. Her one true love.

She runs toward him, throwing herself into his arms. He catches her effortlessly. So strong. So hard. So warm. So hers.

She stares into his eyes and knows she belongs to him forever.

"Danny," she sighs his beloved name.

Then she lifts her face and kisses him.

Zak Underwood

Veteran Soldier Zak Underwood's twin brother, Daniel, was killed in action in the Middle East. A part of him has died, too, but Zak is left with one important thing to do for his brother, to see Daniel's fiancee and tell her the sad news himself.

The truth is, Zak doesn't care about Daniel's very young girlfriend. He always thought that Daniel was nuts for promising to marry a woman sixteen years his junior, whom he hadn't even met in person, but the war could turn lonely soldiers into textbook cases of hopeless romantics.

So here he is now, face to face with Daniel's fiancee. Zak can understand now why his brother was smitten with her. He's been staring at her picture on the plane, but she's even more beautiful in person.

She recognizes him right away from the crowd. Her face lights up in the most breathtaking smile he's ever seen in his life. When she throws herself at him and shyly plants a sweet kiss on his lips, he forgets what he's come here for. And when she calls him 'Danny' in this breathy voice, her eyes awash with emotion and so much love… he doesn't correct her.

God forgive him, but he wants to take Daniel's place.