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When his lips found hers, the horrible song playing and the loud bar patrons didn’t matter anymore. She wasn’t some sixteen-year-old looking for the first kiss of the movies or a naïve twenty-year-old who thought a kiss had to be a certain way. She was a thirty-one-year-old who had been through love, lost, and had sworn she didn’t need a man to keep her warm at night anymore.
But all of that changed when Zander’s lips met hers and an electricity, a warmth, and a sense of serenity flooded her. It was, in many ways, like that romantic first kiss she’d craved at sixteen, just with a more mature, less needy vibe. His lips on hers, Rachel found the confirmation she’d been terrified to find.
He was the man who could change everything, the one who could make Rachel Winters complete. He was the one she wanted, maybe even needed, beside her for this crazy journey called life.
And as he pulled back, smiling at her when their lips parted, she told herself she didn’t have time for this. Even then, old habits were hard to break. Even after he’d knocked her socks off and crippled her with feelings of love and lust and everything in between, she tried to fight it. She told herself she couldn’t make him any promises, and that she shouldn’t. She told herself that even a kiss like that wasn’t a guarantee for happiness. She swore she wouldn’t fall for this again.
But with Zander Riley looking at her, she couldn’t help herself.
She couldn’t hold back anymore.
“I think I’m falling for you,” she whispered, almost inaudible with the noise of the bar.
Zander paused for a moment, and she wondered if he was going to reciprocate the sentiment.
He didn’t speak any words, though. He simply put one hand on her chin, pulled her back into him, and answered her words with a promise of another kind, this kiss more confident than the first.
And it was with that kiss, the second one that radiated a new kind of heat, that Rachel knew she was a goner, promises or not.
