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Lincoln dropped both bags, and sifted his hands through my hair He pulled me nose to nose with him

“I love you, Holly”

I couldn’t breathe — somehow my breath was lost on the wind Rather than try to catch it I just stood there, absorbing the gravity of the moment

“I love you too,” I whispered finally It was so cold, my words ca, Lincoln You’re everything I’ve ever—”

Anything else I ravel driveway, as he pulled my face to his and kissed me

Forty-Three

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I’d been skiing with friends once or twice, and I’d even rented a cabin But it was never anything this re nearly this beautiful, as Lincoln’s chateau or chalet or whatever the fuck he was calling it

Out here on the ass-end of Maine, everything was breathtakingly beautiful Fro we passed looked like so

We were back on the road again, after a short stint in the cabin Apparently whoever stocked the place had neglected a few things, and Lincoln clai center ‘just up the road’

Just up the road turned out to be ten hable It looked more like a convenience store with a liquor store patched onto the end of it And not one of those good liquor stores either The ones that only sold wine and beer

We’d ether as we shopped for snacks and drinks and whatever else we’d need to get through the weekend Holly and I dipped next door to pick up soht chips and pretzels and about five pounds of ‘premium’ beef jerky in all different flavors I never could understand why people ate such a thing in the first place, but I figured to each his own

In the end we finished quickly, as the store was already shutting down for the stor up with snow fast, and the plows could barely keep up with it We huddled back into the front of Lincoln’s bronco, feeling warmer and cozier than ever before

Holly sat between us, wearing tight jeans and an even tighter sweater I caught Lincoln looking at her ed and s smile

It was crazy, how much we both wanted and desired her Even crazier, howhad been filled with non-stop sexual innuendo; with groping and kissing and touching between us and Holly that seely had no actual limits