Standing Outside The Fire. Sara Orwig

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      He leaned away. “I want you, Erin. And I want you to stay with me this morning if you will,” he said earnestly, and all amusement vanished from his expression, replaced by so much desire in his eyes that it took her breath.

      Her heart thudded because she knew if she said no now and walked out, he would step back and let her go. She had to make a choice here. All her life she had known what she wanted and didn’t want. She knew now what she really wanted.

      She didn’t want to walk away from this man who had turned her world topsy-turvy, the first man in her life to set her heart pounding. The best-looking man she had ever known, as well as the most exciting. He was silent, waiting, letting her make her choice.

      She stood on tiptoe, tightened her arm around his neck and drew his head down to kiss him.

      With their lips almost touching, she paused to whisper, “Someday I may regret this moment, but right now it seems perfect.”