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Shattered Dreams
Book: Shattered Dreams Read Online Free
Author: Brenda Kennedy
Tags: Drama, Suspense, Romance, Military, love
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bathe James, Gene and I read the instructions
to the train set behind their backs. Slowly we get the right pieces
into the right places. It would go a lot faster if we didn’t hide
our reading the instructions from Millie, but Gene is determined to
not admit defeat to Millie. I don’t understand what the big deal
is, but Gene tells me one day I’ll understand.  
    During the rest of the week, Gene and I get
the train set together. The plan is that Gene and I will get it put
together, and my dad and I will put it where it needs to be. Millie
and Gene spend as much time as they can bonding with James and
visiting with Emma. We are stationed in New York, and our parents
live in Florida. We all know it will be awhile before they see us
again. Once they leave on Sunday, my parents will be here the
following week. I am scheduled to return to work on Monday. These
two weeks that I have been off have flown by. 
    I return home from taking Emma’s parents to
the airport to find James and Emma sound asleep in our bed. I
shower and climb into bed with them. Emma is very firm about us not
sleeping with James or holding him for too long. She doesn’t want
him to be dependent on sleeping with us or being held. I, on the
other hand, want to sleep with him and hold him during all my free
time.  
    Once I am in bed, I just stare at the both of
them. He reminds me so much of her. They even sleep in the same
position; on their side with their arm draped over their eyes. I
smile and just watch them. I can never get enough of him or her for
that matter. She is the love of my life. I get the camera and snap
several pictures of them. When I get deployed, I plan on taking a
photo album with me.  
    I remember the first time I
saw Emma; she was sitting on a park bench reading. She was wearing
a floral sundress and white sandals. Her long blond hair was pulled
up into a high ponytail. It was a Saturday afternoon nearing the
end of summer. I was there playing basketball and just finishing up
a game when I noticed some punk harassing her. I walked over to her and I could see fear in her eyes. I heard
him saying how sexy she looked in her dress and what he wanted to
do to her sexually. He added how good he can make her feel. I
wanted to beat him to a pulp, but instead I walked up to them and
smiled my all-American smile at her and told her I didn’t know the
game was going to last that long and that I was sorry for keeping
her waiting. She smiled shyly and stood up from the bench with her
book in hand. I stood tall, squared my shoulders, rolled my neck
side to side then balled my hands into a fist. I stood in front of
the scared girl and looked at the punk and asked him did he want
something. He shook his head and walked away. I walked the nameless
girl to her car and watched her drive off. We didn’t exchange names
or phone numbers. I wanted to, but after her encounter with the
creeper, I didn’t want to appear to be a creeper
myself.  
    The following week at school, I was surprised
to see the nameless blond in one of my classes. She saw me in the
back of the room and smiled immediately. I knew when I first saw
her that she was someone special. She never wore makeup and she
didn’t need to; she was just naturally beautiful. She came up to me
and thanked me for helping her that day in the park. We started
having lunch together and I would walk her to most of her classes.
The more time I spent with her, the more I liked her. And the more
time I spent with her, the more I realized that she was incredibly
beautiful and that her beauty was the least interesting thing about
her. 
    Emma has the same first name
as Emma Peel, the character Diana Rigg played for two years on the
British cult TV show The
Avengers . The producers wanted a sexy woman
to replace the sexy actress Honor Blackman, who left The Avengers to play the
character Pussy Galore in the Bond movie Goldfinger . In fact, the producers
put a lot of thought into Diana Rigg’s
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