Deep into the drive back home, Colton slowed the truck to a stop in the middle of the farm-to-market road and checked his mirrors. No one was around, and he’d been alone on the road for half an hour. He flicked off his headlights and interior lights, and pearl moonlight suddenly swam through the waves of summer grass, turning the waist-high prairie into a silver sea. Iridescence glowed off the asphalt, and starlight dipped in and out of Nick’s features, painting his lips and his forehead and the spray of his eyelashes on his cheeks in secret shades of colors Colton couldn’t name. I love you.
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