Her lips felt divine against his own.
She tested him slowly with a peck, searching for that same dutiful understanding here too and William was more than willing to give it. His hands held her own, warming them from the icicles they were to a more natural temperature before moving one of his hands up to caress her cheek.
Her skin was as soft as he remembered it from earlier that afternoon which was exactly what he needed to feel, that she was real and not just some dream that manifested in his thoughts to deal with the demanding levels of stress he had been put through.
“Lorie!” Brian called from the doorway, splitting the two briefly.
“Tonight,” he promised her, “You’re coming home, right?” he quickly asked after.
Malorie nodded once, slowly, then repeated the motion several mor
