Rewitched

by Lucy Jane Wood

“It’s never the right time. Ever. If you’re waiting for all of the stars and planets to align before you make decisions that’ll make you happier, you’ll be waiting forever.”

It seemed to be happening increasingly often—this moment where she’d look around for the responsible adult to guide her with a hand at the small of her back before the gut-punch realisation that she was on her own to make the call.

“Because I was busy returning my heart rate to a normal level after you emerged from the shadows like a sewer rat.

“I don’t know enough,” he breathed back. “I could never know enough about you,” he said, leaving behind slow, hungry kisses on her throat to linger and burn on her skin. “You’re fascinating. And a wonder. And weird. And beautiful. And impossible. In the best ways I’ve ever known anybody to be. I want to know all of you. Everything.”