Zach was kissing her. Really kissing her, his lips a soft, insistent brush against hers, like she’d wanted all those years ago. And Lexi was too shocked to kiss him back. Too shocked to do anything but stand there as he cradled her face in his hands and changed everything. Was this really happening? Was she actually awake?
Lexi felt him tense and pull back. His eyes searched her face, and for a moment she could only stare up at him in dazed shock. In the end, it was the raw vulnerability she saw in his face, the same one she’d felt so often around him, that galvanized her. Curling her hands in his lapels, she pulled him back, fastening her mouth to his.
And she let go. Releasing all the longing, all the want, all the need that she’d repressed and ignored for years. She kissed Zach the wa
