“With an evil, tempting wink that threatened to undo him, she added, “I’m the one you have to watch out for.”

“I’m sorry, I really did want to talk to you.” His free hand went to her face and cupped her cheek. Something tightened pleasantly in her belly. “Just talk?” she breathed.He nodded, but used their clasped hands to pull her closer to him. She raised her head and met his eyes, a storm of blue and green. She smirked. “That’s a shame.”

“Gretchen,” Clint said, his voice full of the same luscious agony Gretchen felt building inside of her. “I’m going to kiss you.” He was giving her one last chance to back out, to push him away. That was not going to happen.Her mouth twisted with amusement. “Not if I kiss you first.”

“The Earth must have done some noble work; that is why you were born here and not in the ocean among the fishes and not in the sky among the birds.”

“I wonder if you know how special you are; I wonder if you know how precious you are; I wonder if you know how lucky I am to have you in my life; I love you so much.”

“I am sure that God has given all his time in making you, the remaining human race has been created in haste.”

“I have a question for you. “If your shadow is the second most beautiful thing in the world, which is the first?”.”

“I think of you only twice a day – when I am alone and when I am with someone else.”