Page 86 of Sugar Spells

“I love you.” Tears clung to her lashes. “Fiercely. Stubbornly. Like a curse I can’t undo.”

His laugh broke, raw, almost a sob. He cupped her face in chocolate-sticky hands. Salt streaked his lips as he kissed her tears away. “I love you too,” he whispered against her mouth. “So much it’s absurd.”

“Absurd suits us.”

It did. Absurd. Perfect. Them.

Her smile outshone every corner of his laughably bright bakery. Every time, it unmade him. He thought he’d be ready for it by now. He never was.

The chocolate lay forgotten. Grim leapt onto the counter, tail flicking as he settled in to watch them with glowing eyes, the picture of feline judgment. Maude laughed against Wesley’smouth, tears still shining, and he thought he could live a thousand lifetimes and never have enough of her.

He was hers. Entirely.

Always.