Again she felt almost as though time was running in reverse. The smoothness of his skin, the ease of his touch, the firm muscles.
"It'll be over soon, Tam. It has to be. And then we'll all look back on this like a bad dream." He encircled her in his arms. "We'll go off to Hokkaido if you like it so much there. Together. Just you and me."
"Why is it all the men I know keep offering me trips?" She laughed and brushed the snow out of his hair. "Matt keeps trying to get me to go down to the Caribbean. Now you want to take me to Hokkaido. I sound like everybody's getaway girl."
"Nobody's called you a girl. You're a woman. You decide what you want."
"Well, at the moment I just want to go to bed with you." She pulled his lips down. "After that I'll worry about the next move."
"We just have to trust each other. That's all that matters."
Well, she thought, how could she not trust this man?
At least for tonight. Tomorrow she would think about tomorrow.
[CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE]
