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years.”
    Emily regarded her in silence for a long time, then nodded slowly. “I guess so. But if this isn’t about how well I know Brandon, why the hell am I feeling so freaked out all of a sudden?”
    Eden took his sister’s hand again, giving it a squeeze. “Maybe it’s because your whole life is about to change. Even if it’s a change for the better, it’s still a big change. That’s enough to rattle anybody.”
    Emily considered that. “Do you think I’ll be able to pull it off as well as mom did?”
    “Pull what off?” Eden asked, wondering if she’d missed a turn somewhere along the path of their conversation.
    “Being able to keep a family going when Brandon is gone on fleet duty? Like mom was able to do with us?”
    Eden smiled. Something told her they’d accidentally stumbled over the real crux of her sister’s anxiety. Dad had been gone a lot when Eden and Emily had been growing up. Schooling, temporary travel assignments, ship deployments, you name it. There were times when she and her sister felt like they didn’t have a father, and their mother was raising them all on her own.
    And Mom had been amazing. Even as a kid, Eden had recognized she was like a force of nature as she dealt with all the problems that came along with being married to a man in the military completely on her own. Mom had handled their moves back and forth across the country, gotten her daughters in and out of schools, kept her husband’s military career on track, and somehow found time and energy to always be there not just for them, but also for the families of friends and relatives. Eden didn’t think she could ever handle that kind of responsibility.
    Apparently, Emily was having those same doubts. Eden could certainly understand why. Her sister wasn’t just marrying a guy in the military. She was marrying into a way of life that put a lot of burdens on a newly married couple.
    “Of course you’re going to be able to do it,” Eden told her. “It’s going to be hard and you’re probably going to be scared to death that you’re going to screw everything up. You’ll do some things differently than Mom would have done them. You’ll make mistakes and you’ll learn from them. But ultimately you’ll raise your own family just as well as Mom did. And you know why?”
    “Why?” Emily asked, almost looking amused now.
    “Because you and Brandon love each other.”
    Emily smiled again. “Yeah, we do. I’m just being silly.” She gave Eden a sheepish look. “Sorry for dragging you all the way over here to listen to me whine.”
    “Don’t worry about it,” Eden said. “You can call me to whine anytime. It’s what sisters are for.”
    “Deal.” Emily sighed. “Still, I feel bad making you come all the way over here. What were you up to when I called anyway?”
    Eden had to fight to keep a silly grin from spreading across her face as she thought about exactly what she and Travis had been up to before her sister called. Even now, she could almost feel his erection pressing against her. The fact that he was so aroused even though he knew what she was just made everything even hotter. She’d never been so turned on with a guy before and had no doubt that they would be in bed naked right now if Emily hadn’t called.
    Just thinking about that possibility made heat settle between her legs. The urge to reach down and touch herself through her jeans was practically impossible to ignore, but she couldn’t do it with Emily sitting across from her.
    Which reminded her. She hadn’t answered her sister’s question yet.
    “Nothing really,” she said. “Just hanging out in my hotel room with a friend.”
    “You met up with one of our friends from school?” Emily asked, surprised. “Who was it?”
    Eden shook her head. “It’s not one of our friends from school. It’s a guy I met recently.”
    Her sister lifted a brow. “A guy. When did you meet a guy?”
    Eden almost laughed. “The night outside the