Kincade's Rose (Megalodon Team) (20 page)

“Tyson, sir.  My name is Tyson Randolph
Kincade.  I love your daughter very much,” Tyson said respectfully,
understanding how hard it must have been for Jonas to admit his faults not only
to his daughter, but to a strange man as well.

“I can see that.”  Jonas set down the empty
glass and stood.  “Well, I guess I came to say what I needed to…so…I will just
be going.”

“You know, maybe you could stay for a while
longer.  We could tell you how we met,” Jayde offered.

Her father’s smile softened his face more
than she’d ever seen.  “I’d like that.  A lot.”

It was after midnight when Jonas finally
left his daughter and son-in-law’s hotel room.  A tentative peace had been made
between them. Tyson shut the door and looked back at the woman who wore one of
his Navy T-shirts and a pair of his boxers.  “How are you doing?” he asked as
he walked over to her, pulling her up from her sitting position into his arms.

“Okay I guess.  It has been an amazing
day.  Just goes to show you that the good guys do still wear white.”  Her head
burrowed into his bare chest.

“So I’m a good guy?”  His hands ran idly up
and down her back.

“Most definitely.  And you look so good in
white.”  She began to press little kisses against his skin.

“And you, Mrs. Kincade, look so good in my
clothes.”  He captured her face and kissed her once.

“Tyson?”

“Yes?” He stared at her lost, in the
richness of her eyes.

“What are we going to do now?”

“Well, tomorrow we need to get you military
identification and figure out where you want to live,” Tyson said.

Jayde smiled. “I don’t care.  I just want
to be where you come home to.”

“My little rose, you are home. 
My
home.”  Tyson gently touched her face, running his thumb over her lower lip.

“Thank you, Tyson.”

He arched a brow. “For?”

“Finding me.  Freeing me.  Most of all, for
loving me,” Jayde whispered with tears in her eyes.

Brushing the tears away he responded, “You
make it so easy to do so.  And thank you for all the same reasons.”

That night a Navy SEAL and an extraordinary
woman realized they’d found true love.  They’d faced danger, disapproval, and
survived.  All they had left was a future that would hopefully be long and
loving. No matter how long they had, they would be side by side.

Tyson knew he’d found one of the rare women
who had what it took to be a military wife.  Jayde understood that of the few
men who became SEALs, she had one who would love her forever; and she knew he
would try his damnedest to return from every mission for which he was deployed.

When Jayde awoke from a nightmare, her very
own knight calmed her fears immediately.  Tyson took her out on the balcony and
together they watched as two stars fell, crossing each other’s paths.

“That’s us,” Tyson whispered.

“Why do you say that?” Jayde asked in a
hushed voice.

“Because each of us was on a different path,
but then we crossed and are forever changed.” Tyson gathered her closer to his
strong body.

“For the better I hope,” Jayde said.

“Most definitely.” He kissed her gently.

As they sat together, Tyson watched his
wife fall back to sleep.  She was his warrior woman, his love, and his reason
for living.

She was Kincade’s rose.

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