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And that was encouraging

“Ah, Pia Are faher behind her ears Shane hadn’t spoken of his family at all on the way home, other than to comment on the fact that his father had ht her attitude needed to be adjusted, but he said the words with a s of himself in his little sister

Moving slightly, Bobbiwith her She’d spent every night here since their hot tub Sunday Every Single Night

It was as if the past three or four years had never happened As if they’d skipped all the bad shit and landed right s and real

She and Shane had made love ether They’d eaten in bed They had showered together and talked until they were ready for the silence to wrap them whole He told her about prison About Wilson the elderly ht him ork

He told her that as et about Bobbi, she had always been inside his head

Her heart swelled painfully He hadn’t said those other words—those three little words that change everything—but she knew his feelings were there They had to be Because she was drowning in hers and she didn’t want to think about drowning alone

Bobbi glanced at the rug in front of the fire place She and Shane had fallen asleep there the night before—wrapped in each other’s ars—and thisshe’d woken with him deep inside her

He had held her fro her back, and neck, his lips trailing kisses where his fingers had been as he slowly thrust in and out Slow Then fast Teasing and dragging things out until she thought she was going to break apart And when they caether she had felt tears in her eyes Tears! Who the hell cries when they’re having sex? Better yet, who the hell cries when they’re having the best sex of their life?

“Oh, God,” she groaned

Just thinking about theirwas nearly more than she could take But it had been so intense and Shane had touched her in a place that only he could reach He had touched not just her heart, but her soul She had never felt more close to anyone, ever Not even before when she and Shane had been together

She shivered and drew a blanket across her lap She was scared because she knew they were progressing to the point of no return and while Shane’s spirit had certainly lightened—as if the path he was on was straight and true—she had become quiet and tense because she knew the truth would either be the glue that would hold theether, or it would surely break them apart It would break them apart forever

“Forever,” she whispered, her fingers buried in Pia’s fur The word on its own sounded nice, but there was also darkness to it The other side of forever wasn’t exactly paradise

She would never h a forever without Shane in it

To not know his touch Or hear his voice To not see the diht cheek when he smiled at her, or the way he looked into her eyes just before he came as if he wanted her to see into the depths of his soul