Chapter 2

He kissed her slowly and thoroughly and she felt the day fall away — the delay and the missed connection and the rescheduled presentation — all of it receding in the specific way things receded when something more immediate arrived.

His hands moved over her — her face, her shoulders, her back — and she pressed against him and felt his warmth and thought about the mathematics of one room left and felt nothing but grateful for them.

He reached for the zip of her jacket and she helped him with it and he pushed it off her shoulders and she pulled his shirt over his head and...