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Brand pulls away, gently running his fingertips aroundto say it but wasn't sure how” His eyes sparkle like stars in a country night sky

“Me too” My voice is soft, butin ainst my ribs

He places his hand on the center of ainstme tenderly “I hope you feel this way forever I hope your heart never stops beating for me”

“It won't ever stop I love you so ine my life without you”

“Good, because you're stuck with ht chuckle “You're , with the sun on your skin, and the wind in your hair I knew you were meant for me”

I grab his face and kiss hi I feel inside With all the love I have for hi I kiss him because his lips were made for me

This ht here, this is heaven And as we make love, as he slips inside me with passionate slowness, I've never felt more complete My heart is full My body is warm My life is finally my own

I've found ht here with this man

Epilogue

Brand

One Year Later

The air is filled with the scent of burning rubber and exhaust fu over the track fro their slicks to make them sticky

I grab Kelsie's helmet and pass it to her “You ready?” I ask

“Hell yeah, I'ht?”

I nod in agreereat,” I say as I lean over and double check the spark plugs and battery terood”

She gives h the een the roll-cage bars It took us all year to get to this point We found an old nineteen sixty-seven Mustang GT rusting away in souy's lot

After so to be restored, and the engine was going to get a coo I spent ine and the body I have the scars on my knuckles to prove it

But she's beautifulSorry, he's beautiful

Kelsie insisted that since it's her car, she's na it, and she calls hie?