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marched toward the airline counter.
The woman was already fending off more than a dozen people, but he had a plan.
And that plan did not include taking no for an answer.

CHAPTER THREE
    “There must be something you can do.” Luke gave the woman at the
ticketing counter what he hoped was a pleading smile. She didn’t look impressed
with him blocking her way. “We’re talking about a soldier trying to get home to
spend a night with her family. Please. ”
    The woman sighed and shook her head. “I wish I could help, but I can’t.
Come back in the morning after the official announcement, and I’ll do my best.”
    Luke raked a hand through his hair. There had to be something he could
do. Some way he could get Saskia to her son.
    I owe you, Luke. Any time you need a favor, if I can do anything to
help you, just pick up the phone and call me.
    Yes. Luke grinned and stepped back, allowing the unhelpful woman
to pass. There was something he could do, and he’d be damned if he
wasn’t going to call in a favorthat was long
overdue. He was determined to get Saskia home, no matter what. It didn’t
completely make sense to him why he felt such a… burning desire to do this, but
there it was. Maybe it was because it was the holidays.
    Luke pulled his phone out of his bag, switched it on, and scrolled through
his contacts. He hit call on a number he’d never had reason to dial before.
    “Luke Gray?”
    It was a voice he hadn’t heard in a long time. “Hi Rob.”
    The other man let out a gasp of surprised laughter. “Don’t tell me that
after all this time you’ve finally decided to call me so we can have that beer?
You in New York?”
    Luke stared after Saskia, tracking her with his eyes as she wandered
toward the food court. “Not this time, buddy, no. I need to call in that favor
you promised me.” It had been a long time ago, but Luke knew the other man
would never forget what he owed him. His life. They’d been on a special
task force together, and if Luke hadn’t found him, if he hadn’t scooped him up
and carried him out over his back, Rob would never have made it home to his own
family. Let alone ended up in the position he held at West Point Military
Academy.
    “Any chance you can send a Humvee out to JFK airport? I have a situation
here, and I need a vehicle that can get me through the snow,” Luke told him.
    “Official business?” Rob asked.
    “No.” Luke paused. He could have lied but he didn’t want to. Rob knew he wouldn’t
be calling in the favor if it wasn’t important, official business or not.
    Rob didn’t say anything and neither did Luke. “How soon do you need it?
This weather isn’t showing any signs of letting up.”
    “I can sit tight until the morning, otherwise I’ll have to find another
way of getting out of here.”
    Rob laughed. “Give me until 0600 hours and I’ll get you the Humvee. But
just promise me you’ll bring her back in one piece, okay?”
    “You have my word.” Luke hung up the phone and headed towards Saskia. If
he couldn’t get her home on a plane, he’d drive her home himself. Right now,
all he wanted was to have dinner with her – he could figure out how the hell he
was going to drive through the snow in the morning.  
    Saskia was nervous. She was heartbroken that she wasn’t going to make it
home, but it was her nerves troubling her right at this exact moment.
Especially watching Luke as he walked towards her. The Navy SEAL was hot, there
was no other way to describe him, and the thought of sharing more time up close
and personal with him was suddenly scaring the hell out of her.
    “Hey.” She couldn’t read the look on his face.
    “Hey,” he said back, dropping down into the seat across from her. “Did
you have to fight for this spot?”
    The airport was full of people stranded, with no place else to go. “Surprisingly,
no. But getting dinner might be another story entirely.”
    She met Luke’s gaze, desperate to ask him if he’d come up