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“Please put your shirt on,�� she said.

He pulled it over his head, checking the buttons. “Better?��

She looked exhausted, and happy, and too bighearted to believe. So why did he still feel anguished? He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her onto his lap.

“Hey!�� She laughed, hugging an arm around him.

He snuggled his nose in her hair and kissed her neck. Mine, he thought.

“They’ll see,�� she muttered.

They’d better. “Let them. It’s legal.��

She laughed again and quickly kissed him. Finally.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, Ruled