With my eyes on him, my body bathed in his, I shut my mind off to everything but Solo and let myself feel all of the emotions I’d running from for so long. Acceptance. Desire. Love… And as that final, scariest emotion of all hit full force, my body bowed up in an effort to get closer to the one it now recognized as its perfect match. I fell apart in that room, in the arms of the man who had become as integral to me as breathing. But I wasn’t scared, not anymore, because I knew Solo would be there to catch me.
