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The tightness inside her loosened, and for the first tian to hope

And erous territory for her to traverse, hway in thetraffic, but she didn’t kno to be any other way Lily leaned into his hand, her fingers tracing the contours of his jaw before resting against his mouth

“So what are we going to do?” she asked softly, loving the play of shadows on his face

“We explore each other We enjoy each other”

His tongue darted out, and she shuddered when he licked the tips of her fingers

“We respect each other’s boundaries and see where this goes”

Boundaries Right His “no white-picket fence and no kids” boundary

Could Lily live with the knowledge that she would never have those things as long as she ith Mackenzie?

What was the alternative if not? A life alone and never feeling alive again? Never knowing the joy she took by just watching hiold? The feel of him inside her? The sound of his voice?

Could she live a life without love now that she’d experienced it?

That thought whispered through her mind, and for one scary moment, time sort of froze She saw herself as an old, bitter woman with no babies and no husband…and no Mackenzie

Holy Shit

It hit her then She’d fallen in love with him She didn?

??t know the when of it or the how of it…she just kneithout a doubt that, that hat the hot, hard thing pressing into her chest was It was love It was a scared kind of love that had no idea what it was doing

Maybe Mackenzie loved her but didn’t know it yet, or s inside his that she couldn’t control