I have never seen anything or anyone as beautiful as you were in that dress.” He ran a thumb against her lip. “I thought of it every night.” Elise leaned in to kiss him, and Mick began to tremble. “I don’t want to hurt you,” he said. You already have, she thought. “You won’t,” she said. He took her to bed, and they found a kind of happiness together. It was all they had in those days, and it was real.
