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Together At Last
He was here. She was here. She was the luckiest girl in the world. His face was shiny. A wet lock of his wavy black hair fell over his forehead. He was magnificent. What he’d risked for her. What he’d done to be here. She could only imagine.
He moved into the thicket off the edge of the road and out of sight of the taxi. He put out his arms to her.
She was overwhelmed by a love so raw, so hungry, so powerful, she ached to touch him. Her feet closed the twenty-foot distance between them before she’d made a conscious decision to move. Somewhere in that twenty-foot gap, she accepted that there was no time for coyness or mind games. Every second was precious.
Her body melded into him like a perfectly fitting jigsaw piece. His strong arms wrapped tightly around her wais
