You Save Me: Born to Fly, #2

By Aliyah Burke

Garrick vows after finding Delaney this time will be different. He wants forever. Still, there're numerous things they need to overcome. When the chance arrives for him to tell her how he feels, will she believe him? Can she look past what she is scared of becoming and accept his love?
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sensual Romance Publishing
• Release date: Feb 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386229100

Aliyah Burke

USA Today bestselling author Aliyah Burke is an avid reader and is never far from pen and paper (or the computer). She is happily married to a career military man. They are owned by six Borzoi. She spends her days at the day job, writing, and working with her dogs.

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You Save Me

Copyright © 2010 Aliyah Burke first edition

Copyright © 2016 Aliyah Burke second edition

Cover illustration copyright © Kim Killion

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Published by: Sensual Romance Publishing

You Save Me

By

Aliyah Burke

Dedication

To my readers, thank you so much for your patience while I got this book back out. Enjoy my Marine!

A stubborn Texas Marine pilot and the woman of his dreams, can they make it work the second time around?

Marine pilot Captain Garrick Paladin Stark is back in the United States after being stationed in Japan. He loves his career but something is missing. His woman. And he wants her back.

Delaney Byrd works for the USO. One night at a club she finds herself face to face with a man she knew she’d never forget, a man who had started off as a one night stand yet lasted a year.

Garrick vows after finding Delaney this time will be different. He wants forever. Still, there’re numerous things they need to overcome. When the chance arrives for him to tell her how he feels, will she believe him? Can she look past what she is scared of becoming and accept his love?

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Additional Books by Aliyah Burke

About the Author

Books in the Born to Fly Series

Chapter One

The club was loud; the music shook the walls and the dancers did the same to the smooth tile floor beneath her feet. Delaney Byrd wove in and out of the gyrating bodies to the bar, parched and ready to get some liquid down her throat. The bartender, a tall hunk of a man whose physique and features reminded her more of Shemar Moore than anything else, turned toward her and lifted his chin in silent question.

Two beers please. And make them domestic she said loudly leaning along the shiny black bar top, to the man behind who gave her a nod as he served someone else.

Within moments, he’d placed them down before her. Here you go, gorgeous.

He winked and dragged the cloth from his shoulder across the counter before taking the bill she handed him. A smile curved up his mouth offering her a view of the sexy dimple in his left cheek. Damnation, he’s fine. She took the change he handed her and slid a tip back across to him. With another wink, he slipped the bill into his pocket.

Thanks, he said.

"No, thank you, she replied toasting him with one of the two beers he’d provided and grabbing the other she slipped back into the crowd. Delaney made her way back to where her friend Heather Trells sat at a table, her long leg across the other chair to keep it saved for her. Here you go, one beer, courtesy of the hunky bartender."

Heather glanced up and smiled at her, her teeth brilliant white against her darker skin. Oh thank God you’re back, I’m thirsty. She picked it up and brought it to her lips before pausing. Wait, hunky bartender? Is that what you said?

Sitting down, Delaney took a drink of her beer and laughed. She stared at her friend; Heather’s brown eyes sparkled with humor. Her dark brown skin had some leftover glitter on it from the earlier party she had been to. Her outfit was tight and she looked hot. But then Heather always did. Delaney hadn’t gone to the first party but had come here to meet her friend and join her for a celebration.

Yes, he was good looking. A waggle of eyebrows. Think Derek Morgan only a bit taller and darker.

Damn. And?

Delaney pursed her lips, narrowing her gaze. And what? I got the beers. Delaney gestured to their drinks. See, a beer for each of us.

Hooking up with him?

She damn near spewed beer from her mouth. Delany shook her head. Are you crazy? Why would I do that?

Heather barely blinked. He’s hunky, or so you said. And let’s face it, you mentioned Agent Morgan so we all know he’s fine.

He sure is. I don’t sleep with guys just because they look good. Well, not anymore. As if reading her mind, Heather merely arched a finely plucked brow. What...fine since I’ve gotten back to the States I don’t do that anymore.

Her lips twitched. Had more fun in Japan though, I bet.

It was a one-time thing, Delaney said with a slight snap. The memory was more painful that she cared to admit. And more than she cared to think about, especially on a night when she was supposed to be out having fun, not reliving sins of the past.

Heather was nonplussed by her bite of attitude, in fact, it was as if Delaney had meowed at her like a tiny cute fluffy kitchen who wanted its bottle of milk. Damn lawyers.

"Right, if you say so. Ever think there is a reason you’ve never done such a thing again? Perhaps because the man with that black hair, kickass body, and sapphire blue eyes meant something more to you? But, if you say it was a one-time thing, Delany, I’ll let it go. Doubt it, but hey what do I know? I mean, you kept a by-all-accounts gorgeous Marine pilot enamored with you without even trying. So, this is me letting it go, if you say that’s all it was, who am I to argue?" Heather tipped up her bottle and drank.

An attorney who does a damn good job arguing for a living. I say so, Heather, she said, rolling her eyes.

Her friend held up a hand and Delaney knew she would say no more on it for the night. Heather backing off was barely a twenty-four hour deal, but hell, she’d take what she could get. A man came up and asked Heather to dance; Delaney watched her go with him, pulled her friend’s beer closer and hooked her boot around the leg of the recently vacated chair.

Holding her own drink to her mouth, Delaney paused and remembered the man she’d had the fling with. Fling, can we really call it that?

First Lieutenant Garrick Stark. Handsome. Texan. Marine pilot. And damn good with his hands, mouth, and other parts of his body. The way Heather talked it was like she’d done the one night thing all the time while in Japan. She hadn’t. Her thing with that one guy had started as nothing more than a one-night stand but she couldn’t get enough of him, so one night had turned to two and that turned into a year until she came back to the States. Just up and left without a word to him, of course he’d been deployed when she had moved back. Hard to place a call then.

They did very few things like a couple, for the most part it was sexual between them. Hot and heavy. Not that she minded but she did long for something more every now and then. More than just a physical exchange. Something simple like walking down the street, holding hands. Seeing a movie. The tiny things.

A few songs later Heather came back all smiles. Do you mind if I go with him? Heather asked reaching for her beer.

Delaney lifted a brow. I’m not your mom. If you want to go with him then fine. Just make sure you know what you’re doing. Hell, I could have stayed home, I know how