“No, Alice. I’m showing you how proud of you I am. So much that it fills me every minute of the day to the brink and I spill over and reach for your calming touch. Don’t you understand?” She lifted her chin, the eternal warrior. “All I’m doing is being near you, Parker. I’m not actually doing anything.” He grazed his knuckles along her cheek and felt the sin ease from his body like an exhale. “My darling Alice. All you need to do is exist and I’m falling into you. Falling in love with you.”
