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The silence arced between them, intense and urgent, as compelling as the fire blazing in his eyes. With him, she would find sweet fulfillment.

It would be bliss. And it would be based on lies. Tomorrow always came and with it the reckoning she’d come to expect. Then whatever they’d shared would be lost, one more thing to remember with regret….

“What troubles you so?” he asked.

“Us,” she admitted. “And all that it implies.”

“Which is?”

She turned from his scrutiny. “I don’t know.”

He nodded as if he understood. “Sometimes things move too fast. There are too many questions.”

The questions pertained to her. She clenched her hands and wished she could tell him everything—all her worries, her yearnings, her dreams.

He let off the brake and made the turn onto the road home. His home, not hers. She must remember that.