For more than 90 minutes, on October 23,2011, I read Danielle Steel's Lone Eagle.
We ended off with Joe and Kate saying good-bye as the United States has just entered the second world war and Joe is going England to be a fighter pilot.
It was a grim Christmas and Kate was missing Joe. She stayed in at her parents house during the holiday away from school. Her good friend Andy (he wanted to be more) tried to get her to go out but she felt she was being unfaithful to Joe.
Kate went back to school in January and filled her days with classes. She would fill her evenings writing to Joe or having dinner with Andy in the cafeteria. She and Andy were becoming close friends.
The months went by and the war went on. In May, Andy graduated from Harvard on his way to law school. Kate took a summer job with the red cross and Andy worked at the hospital.
Kate continued her work with the Red Cross until the last two weeks of summer which she spent with her parents in the Cape. As she was standing by the campfire one night remembering the year before when Joe showed up there, a familiar voice sounded beside her. It was Joe and he was on two weeks leave.
As well as Kate, Clark and Liz were happy to see Joe home safe. They invited him to stay with them in Boston as Kate had to be returning to school. Kate and Joe had a wonderful time during his stay. They knew they loved each other and that was all that mattered. Clark and Liz wanted to know what he intended and he told them he loved her but would not marry her to make her a widow. Kate understood this and she was happy with what she had. It was September of 1942 and they had two wonderful weeks together and then said good bye as Joe left for England.
The war and school went on. Joe was flying into Washington to receive a medal and he took Kate to the Whitehouse with him to receive it. They met up in Washington at the same hotel, separate rooms. It was three days before Christmas.
After the ceremony, they stayed in the hotel lobby talking until it got to cold to stand. They knew they could trust each other so they went up to Joe's room to continue talking. It was warmer up there. One thing led to another and they stayed the night together. Neither one was sorry but it had to stay their secret. Joe left for England the next day.
The war went on and Kate went bacl to school. Kate had been sick for the last few months and everyone was worried about her. She wouldn't see a doctor and she said she had the flu but, she knew that she was pregnant. She didn't tell Joe because she didn't want to worry him. She told no one else for obvious reasons. Kate wasn't sure what to do at first. She knew she would have to leave school and her parents would be disappointed. She did know that she loved Joe and wanted to have his baby.
Kate was three months pregnant when she was hit and knocked unconcious by somebody on a bicycle. Besides the pain and the bruising, she lost her baby that night. Two of her roommates figured out what was happening to her and helped her. She didn't tell her parents or anyone else what had happened.
Kate finished her term at school and worked for the Red Cross again for the summer. Of course the last two weeks were spent in the Cape. This time there was no Joe but life went on.
It's October now and Kate is back in school when she has a visitor; it's Joe. He had to be in Washington on business and has 24 hours to spend with her. They go to a hotel and register as husband and wife. Kate decides to use birth control and she tells Joe about the baby she lost.
They spend a wonderful evening and morning together. Joe takes Kate back to school and off to Washington he goes.
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