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This was the woman Dottie had given his house to.

Serena had ruined his homecoming—and his Christmas. Jonas couldn’t forget that. But he didn’t like the tired lines under her eyes. He disliked even more that he cared about her exhaustion at all.

Best stick to the basics. “ID?”

She handed over her military ID card and her son’s.

Jonas’s fingers flew over the keyboard as he automatically typed in the last name, the active-duty sponsor’s social security number—

His hands stilled.

Delgado, Philip. Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps. Deceased.

He knew Serena was a war widow. That she had a son. But to read it, in black and white, made him wish he could have been there and been the one to save her husband. Anything to take the sorrow from her eyes.

He glanced over at her. Her gaze was intent on her son, and Jonas waited for her to look back at him. When she did, he saw the cold edge of distrust on her face.

His mind kept going over his last conversation with Dottie.

“You’ll love Serena. It’s as though she’s always been here.”