But I was experiencing a feeling. A big feeling. An intense surge of emotion flooded through me. It wasn’t new. I’d felt it before, but until this moment, I hadn’t let myself truly feel it in all its fullness. I’d felt it as I ran my fingers through Corban’s hair when he’d been sick. When he’d stood up for me at the vet. Each time he’d stolen a kiss at work or grinned at me like we shared a secret. It had been there, trying to nudge its way to the front of my brain, every time I’d lain in bed with him, my body warm and satisfied. That had been more than the release of oxytocin and the flood of
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