Jack leaned in to kiss her then, planting his lips so tenderly on hers that they felt more shadow than flesh. And then she kissed him back, and soon they were kissing so deeply that for a moment it didn’t feel as though they were two separate people at all. It had begun to rain harder outside the stable’s rickety wooden frame, but neither of them cared. Jack pressed Hazel against a beam and pulled the pins from her hair until her curls fell past her shoulders. He pressed his face into her hair and breathed in deeply, and then he ran a finger along the curve of her cheek. “Dear Lord in heaven,”
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