Love's Healing Touch
he roughly demanded, as if he was afraid of waking to find this one of his bitter dreams.
Elara smiled, the skin at the outer corners of her eyes puckering up just so that he adored her. She moved closer on tiptoes and placed her hand on the thumping in his chest. "As real as the stars in the sky," she breathed into him, her voice shaking with the depth of her emotion.
Adrian leaned to kiss her—a slow, gentle kiss of gratitude, awe, and a seething, thwarted love through all the tests life had seen fit to lay on them. Her hands were wrapped around his shirt, holding fast, giving herself to the wonder of the kiss.