"I missed you," Alessandro murmured into her hair. She side-eyed him. "I was only gone for a few minutes." "Even a minute feels like eternity when you are away." Elyse laughed in spite of herself. "Stop." Alessandro grinned cheekily. "Never. I must never stop with you. It was my dogged persistence that chained you to me. If God is kind, He will let me keep you. Forever."
