Kiss Is a Four-Letter Word (18 page)

"I'm going to get a tattoo," she said.

Eli stirred, kissing her shoulder. "You don't have to."

"I want to. I want to have something that connects me to you and Simon. Something permanent."

Simon smiled at her, his handsome face soft in the fading light. "A dragon?"

She nodded. Happiness swelled in her chest. It felt strange, but good. Right. She felt healed.

"We'll put it right here," Eli said, tracing a finger over the top of her left breast.

Sherry nodded and put her hand over his. "I feel strange."

"Good strange or bad strange?" Simon asked.

Sherry didn't even have to think about it. "Good strange. I feel whole, for the first time in a long while."

Simon smiled and kissed her. Sherry savored it, pouting when he pulled away.

"Whenever you feel like your past is overwhelming, remember this moment," Eli said. He lifted her hand, kissed the back of it. "Somehow, sometime between the stars and darkness at the rest stop and the glitter of the chandeliers at the dinner, I fell in love with you."

Sherry bit her lip. Was he serious? She thought she was the only one who felt that way. She'd been afraid to say anything, worried they'd think she was crazy. "I was so scared and I didn't even realize it. I thought I was remembering the night of the charity dinner completely wrong. I thought I'd imagined how incredible it was to be with you and Simon. None of it seemed real."

"No. I felt it too. I felt it with the very first kiss on the mountain." Simon picked up her other hand and kissed the palm. "If you disbelieve everything else, believe this." He kissed her again. And again.

The next thing she knew they were making love once more, kissing each other over and over until certainty lodged itself in her heart. Their mouths told her how they felt. Their bodies pressed love into hers. She let them open her up and carry her into bliss, again and again until she believed that what she felt was real and true and spectacular. Because kisses never lie.

The End

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Other Books by Erin M. Leaf:

Risk Is A Four-Letter Word

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