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Piper sighs. “Will you stop helping people when the karmic scales are balanced?”
“No,” I rear back from her as if she’s slapped me, “of course not.”
“Exactly,” she says matter-of-factly. The sly smile she gives me tells me she just proved her point about me. Maybe she did.
She says it with so much conviction, her big eyes looking up at me with so much innocence and knowing. I don’t know how or why but all the things I’ve told myself, the explanations I’ve made and the things I’ve believed, burn to ash in my mind and on my tongue.
There is only one truth left in the cinders.
“I love you, Piper,” the words are spoken with conviction as I pull her impossibly closer, my lips hovering over hers.
She gasps, “I love you, Landon.”
When I kiss her this time, there is nothing between us. There is no past which weighs on me. There is no danger to her in the present. There is only us.
Somehow, it feels like the first kiss of the rest of my life.
