She looked at him. At his steady eyes and his careful hands and the camera sitting abandoned behind him.

"I've been sure since the first session," she said honestly.

He looked at her for a long moment.

Then he kissed her again and this time neither of them pulled back.

He laid his jacket on the floor of the studio — this is not how I planned this, he said against her mouth and she laughed and said neither did I — and they stayed in the warm light of the window and he touched her the way he photographed her, with complete attention, like she was something worth being...