30 Days of Story: Soldier’s Dilemma (part 2)

“Do you want to hold the baby?”

Mallory hadn’t even had to glimpse Sam to sense the tension in him. She’d felt it before she’d turned to smile at him.

He was hiding it. It was his m.o. Whatever it was, she knew he’d tell her when he was good and ready.

The baby, Timothy, was soft and snuggly. He was Amber’s third child—the woman claimed her stepson as her own—and holding him was making Mallory’s heart hurt so good.

She wanted Sam to feel that. Needed it.

But a flare of something that mig...