Welcome Home
By Emily Mims
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Love and patience help a loyal young Texan beauty overcome the fears of her heroic fiance, returning wounded from the Iraq War.
Emily Mims
The author of over thirty romance novels, Emily Mims combined her writing career with a career in public education until leaving the classroom to write full time. The mother of two sons, she and her husband split their time between central Texas, eastern Tennessee, and Georgia visiting their kids and grandchildren. For relaxation Emily plays the piano, organ, dulcimer, and ukulele for two different performing groups, and even sings a little. She says, “I love to write romances because I believe in them. Romance happened to me and it can happen to any woman—if she’ll just let it.”
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Welcome Home - Emily Mims
WELCOME HOME
Emily Mims
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, business establishments or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Boroughs Publishing Group does not have any control over and does not assume responsibility for author or third-party websites, blogs or critiques or their content.
WELCOME HOME
Copyright © 2015 Emily Wright Mims
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ISBN 978-1-941260-85-2
To all our wounded warriors—we love you!
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
About the Author
WELCOME HOME
Chapter One
Christi Bailey parked her old Chrysler van in the parking lot of the sprawling San Antonio Military Medical Center and squinted up into the bright winter sun. It’s all going to be all right, she promised herself as she took a calming breath and stepped from the van. Tommy Joe Reece is coming home today. You’ve looked forward to this for so long, and it’s finally happening. Your sweetheart’s coming home to you. You can marry him now and have the life you’ve always dreamed of with him.
Taking another deep breath, Christi strode briskly across the parking lot, her tall, tooled Western boots clacking against the asphalt, and marched determinedly into the huge medical facility. She waved and nodded as she passed the busy nurses station and was just about to open the door to Tommy’s room when Sergeant Gail Holbrook, Tommy’s kind but no-nonsense physical therapist, flagged her down.
Christi? Can I have a word or two with you right quick?
Sure.
The apprehension Christi felt earlier roared back with a vengeance. From the look on Gail’s face, whatever she had to say wasn’t going to be good.
Sergeant Holbrook pointed to a small visitors’ room at the end of the corridor. The women sat down across from one another, the smallish, curvy blonde in stiff new jeans and a Western shirt a sharp contrast to the middle-aged therapist with an Afro and DCUs.
Thanks for taking the time to talk to me,
the therapist volunteered. I know you’re eager to claim Tommy and get on the road.
No, I thank you,
Christi said. Something has you concerned or you wouldn’t want to talk to me.
The sergeant nodded. You’re right. Christi, I’m worried about Tommy. He’s not in a good frame of mind right now and he hasn’t been for a while.
Tell me something I don’t know,
Christi said. He hasn’t been in a good frame of mind since the euphoria of actually surviving the shooting wore off and the reality of what happened to him over there set in.
"He’s talked about this