The Rescue

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

Instead his arm never left her lower back, and he looked at her that night as if she were the only person in the world.

Still dressed in pajamas, her hair a tangled mess, she looked absolutely perfect.

As he touched her cheek, Denise closed her eyes, willing this memory to last forever. She knew intuitively the meaning of Taylor’s touch, the words he’d left unspoken. Not because she’d come to know him so well. She knew because she’d fallen in love with him at exactly the same time.

People come, people go-they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures.