He hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in so long and his entire body ached with fatigue. The soft kiss on his shoulder brought a smile to his face. He loved how tender he could be. “How are you feeling,” his voice a seductive breath. “I’m ok. Tired, but ok.” “I worry about you. You know that, don’t you?” He just shrugged. “I worried about you the whole time I was away. Worried you wouldn’t love me anymore when I got back. Worried I’d die in the middle of that squalid war zone and no one would tell you that I was dead. Really, I worried about that. I was so afraid if that happened that you would think it was my choice not to come back to you.” “I didn’t think you were coming back.” “All I thought about over there was coming back to you. This. Right now. Feeling you next to me.
