Pieces Of The Heart
Karen White

Excerpt

He moved her into his lap, needing to put his arms around her, to somehow take the pain away. She affected him this way, and he didn't know why. When did things change between us? As he held her to him, he remembered holding her after she'd fallen into the lake. It had been then, he thought. When he'd seen the girl she had once been and become determined to find the woman she was supposed to be. And now, holding her in his arms, he found that he had.

Bending close to her ear, he whispered, "I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being."

She blinked in confusion, and he knew there was more she had to tell him. But it wasn't the time right now; now with the rising moon, the stars in the sky and the light of the bonfire making her glow as if from her own inner fire.

He bent his head to hers and kissed her, and one by one the stars went out leaving only a burning glow behind his eyelids as she pulled him closer and began to kiss him back.