“I love you,” I said. She opened her eyes and blinked a couple of times. Then she lifted one ear out of the water and said, “What did you say?” I smiled at her. Then I went back to running my hands gently down her arm, encouraging some of the dead stuff to come off. It would take a few days for her to get back to normal. “Oh,” she said, studying my face. Then she sat up in the water, twisted a little toward me, and slid both of her arms around my neck. She pulled my mouth down to hers with a strength that no longer surprised me. But the sudden, sweet, almost desperate softness of the kiss that
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