Page 43 of Cornered

Steph laughed and Tate chuckled, then gazed down at her. “Now, where were we?”

“Winding up a conversation if I recall correctly.”

“Ah yes.” He kissed her again. Long seconds later, he tipped his forehead to hers. “I like conversing with you.”

“I see. So how should this conversation end?”

“With, ‘Where would you like to go on an official first date?’”

“I don’t care as long as it’s with you.”

He grinned, and Steph couldn’t wait to see how the rest of their story unfolded. If it should end with “and they lived happily ever after,” filling in the details sounded like a lifetime she could look forward to.