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‘You haven’t gotten any younger, either,’ she said indignantly

‘Oh, yeah, I know it My joints creak,thirty’

‘You won’t be pushing it for another three years,’ Holly said, trying not to laugh ‘And, if it er’

‘Just, “pretty good”, huh?’

‘Well, not bad’

‘You could try being a little more specific’

‘You’re pathetic,’ Holly said, lips twitching

Nick waggled his eyebrows ‘A couple ofanother tune, m’dear’

‘I don’t knohat you’re talking about For starters, I do not whistle’

‘Whistle, applaud, sigh…what’s the difference?’ He grinned ‘The point’s still the sao’

‘What would you like, Nicholas Brennan? Applause? You’ll do anything to get o!’

‘Well, you can stroke that, too,’ Nick said, with an evil leer

Holly burst out laughing ‘You’re impossible’

His smile faded ‘And you’re so beautiful you ain, with sweet deliberation ‘I love you, Holly’

Holly felt her heart turn over She clasped his face and brought his mouth down to hers

‘Nicky,’ she sighed, ‘my Nicky…’

His mouth closed over hers, and the sweetness of their kisses yielded to the fierce hunger that they’d never forgotten

‘Nick,’ she whispered ‘Oh, Nick, how I love you!’

The words, those sweet, sords he’d never let hih him like a flame Nick rolled her beneath him, sheathed himself in her

‘Forever,’ he said

Holly’s eyes fixed on his ‘Forever,’ she whispered, as he began to move