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He stared dumbly down at her upturned face.

“Go on, Linese, give your husband a proper reception,” the mayor urged.

“Welcome home— Chase.” She rose on tiptoe and touched her soft lips to the side of his face in a self-conscious greeting.

His heart slammed against his rib cage. Linese. This was Linese. This was his wife.

God, she was beautiful, and younger than his own twenty-one years, if he had his guess. She was the very image of what every soldier wished he had waiting for him at home.

Chase swallowed hard and beseeched God to let him remember her, but nothing happened. He remembered nothing about her.

He was doomed to play out this charade in a life he could not recollect. And this poor woman, who had done nothing to deserve this kind of punishment, was condemned to play it out with him.