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lifted her hands and put them around his neck. “Now shut up and listen. Whatever happened in the past is the past. All I know now is that until you came back into my life, I’ve been satisfied, but I haven’t really been happy.”
    For a few crucial seconds, she couldn’t speak at all past the lump in her throat. “You say that like it’s not a lot. Like it’s not everything to hear you say that.”
    His mouth curved in a disreputable, I’ve-got-you-now sort of, melting-chocolate-on-the-dashboard sort of smile. “Oh. Well, it’s everything I’ve got, so that’s about right.”
    “It’s exactly right.”
    She tightened her arms around his neck and let her kisses do the talking for her, underscored by the sweep of violins, and maybe a cheering laugh from the closest patrons of the arts. It was a Hollywood Ending, and if symphony subscriptions didn’t go up immediately, Kiara would eat her bowstrings.
    Finally Alex let her breathe, but he didn’t let her go. “What are you doing for the next year?” he asked in her ear. “Or two, or maybe three.”
    “You,” she answered, in a way her mother warned her about.
    “Damned straight.”

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