He looked at her for one long moment.

Then he crossed the room and closed the door and turned back to her and she was already standing, the sheet loose around her, and he crossed back to her and she reached up and kissed him.

He kissed her back immediately — no hesitation, no performance, just his hands finding her face and his mouth on hers and the warm room around them — and she felt the same focused attention she had felt through his hands for ninety minutes arrive in a completely different form.

He kissed her slowly, thoroughly, his hands moving from her face to her shoulders to...