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There’s no choice but to hold themselves together. She can feel Kai’s eyes staring at her. Their look is wide and wild with intense questions. Yet, Dru remains cool. She offers not a single hint of her omission.
Dru listens to the rain’s rhythm, its steady assuredness grounds her in this determined silence. She and Kai are so far from how their day began. They awakened to the downpour. The birds that normally sing alongside the morning were hidden and quiet. From their bedroom window, Ola’s birch hillside became a mystical, misty, fantasy of floating ferns. The water catchment resounded a slow river as their fingers flowed, flirted, and luxuriated in exploration of one another.
Kai had wanted to skip the morning meeting entirely. Stay in bed. Keep making love. Dru wishes... Read more
