Lying in Your Arms

It was crazy. It was wonderful

He bent to brush his lips across hers, sealing the promise with a gentle kiss. “I’m never letting you get away again.”

He’d missed her, yeah. Because he loved her like crazy.

You’re mine.”
“Forever?”
“Forever. Rings, vows, whatever you want.”

“It’s really you. You’re really here.”

Falling head over heels, out-of-her-mind, crazy-in-love with him.

She preferred him. Just him. Over any other man she had ever known.

To be the woman a man this steady, this sure, this wonderful really loved would be such a gift. What a miracle.

But never had she had stars in her eyes the way her sister did, and never had she tap-danced through her day because the right guy smiled at her the way Tommy did.