They had kept the possibilities at bay and continued to learn about one another. To know. So, when they did make love, finally, maybe inevitably, it had shaken Ren to the core. It was like traveling into the center of a deep wilderness and realizing you already knew the place by heart. As he stood beside Hilly’s ticking truck, he understood that the shocking wonder of the night was not that he loved her, but that he had loved her already.
