Chapter 11
DAVID
Two Years Later
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I LOOK AROUND AT THE guys on the bus with me. We just landed Stateside a few hours ago, and we are heading back to the base. When we get there, I get to officially sign out and head home. I am done with my military service.
Just as it has many times over the past two years, my mind drifts back to my Ivy. Those last two weeks she spent with me at my house, she cooked so many amazing foods for me, saying the Army wasn’t going to feed me well, and she wasn’t kidding. We made love on pretty much every surface of the house. If her face was blushing when we toured Ivy Hill that day, it would be redder than a tomato now.
She went home the day before I got the letter in the mail about where I was to report. That day, she took my heart and soul with h
