With those two softly uttered words, thrown up at the heavens, he seals his lips to mine— And she is forgotten. If only for this moment. It’s just Jeremy and me, and a lifetime of fear and regret and pushed back feelings colliding in a white-hot supernova that obliterates every other thought, every other sensation, but this. Thisthisthis. Ususus. My arms come around him, pulling him up flat against me. His mouth stretches mine open, giving our tongues all the permission they need to tangle hotly together, like it’s what they’ve been made to do.
