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.Maybe she wouldn’t have lost their little girl.But she could give him a genuine second chance.And maybe, just maybe, she wouldn’t lose everything.“Tell me about your mom.”He relaxed his hold, dropped his chin on top of her head, and stroked her hair.“Mom worked at the Dixon Line Diner.Top fry cook in the region.Truckers would take side trips to have one of her cheeseburgers.”She held him and braided her leg through his.“I’m sure I would have loved one of her burgers, too.”His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down before he spoke again.“She liked to take me to the mountains.We’d hunt for tadpoles and catch fireflies.We camped.Made s’mores.Just ordinary stuff.” Zach’s voice cracked as if the recollection frayed his thoughts.Her throat constricted and searing heat jabbed behind her eyes.“She sounds like a remarkable woman.Tough and strong and loving.”“Yeah.” He propped himself up on an elbow.“She’d left her family behind when she was sixteen and never looked back.Mom had a knack for making friends out of strangers.Didn’t matter where she was or who was there, she’d strike up a conversation.She’d ask questions.Then she’d really listen to the answers.Mom always made everyone feel like they were special.”A sob clutched her chest when she heard the unspoken yearning in his voice.A pang deep and low in her breastbone pushed painfully.How she ached for the man who’d lost so much.“Nothing,” she said, “can make up for the loss of a loved one.” Her arms still yearned for the child she’d borne and held for only a few precious minutes.“Thanks for not spouting the usual clichés,” he said.“But then you know about those, too.”The future frightened her, but she had to forge ahead.Zach deserved love.And so did she.But she couldn’t tell him the truth and risk driving him away before Michael finished his clinical research trial at the Tallahassee University Hospital and returned to Sweetbriar Springs to give his next ALS fundraising speech.She and Zach had committed themselves to this fake engagement for Michael’s sake.She’d tell Zach the unvarnished truth about her infertility issues after the benefit was over.Kennedy stopped Zach’s trip into the thorny past with her mouth.All that was hurt and grieving inside her melded with his pain when she sealed his lips with hers.He kissed her slowly, tenderly, then pulled away to twine her hair in his forefinger.“I want to feel you around me again.” Zach’s pupils had grown into large, black disks of desire.She caressed his cheek, stroked her hand down to grasp his length, felt him grow larger.Her nipples tightened and her sex tugged, sending rivulets of agonizing yearning through her.“I need you inside me,” she whispered.Zach kissed her with the hunger of a starving man.He parted her folds and slipped his finger inside.Kennedy widened her legs, a languid heavy feeling moving through her.There was nothing but this time, this man, this moment.He slid into her, his length filling and completing her.Then he moved within her in a sensually slow rhythm.Waves of pleasure flowed through her.Everything within her yearned for more.More of him.More of the man who’d let down his guard.More of the man she’d grown to love all over again.Kennedy coiled her arms around his waist and held him close.Here was a man she could love forever.But could he return that love once she revealed her secret? Would he forgive her for her lie? In this moment, joined as one, she wanted to believe anything was possible.He quickened his movements.“Kennedy.Sweet Kennedy,” Zach said, thrusting deeper and invading her with his possession.“Zach, I’ve missed you so…” she cried.“I…” love you still.She thought she’d lost him forever, and now he’d returned.And maybe, just maybe, given the right words and the best timing, she’d hold on to him forever.“Stay with me,” he rasped.“Stay with me, and we’ll ride it together.”She raised her hips.“I will.”Hot shudders of excitement coursed through her.Her muscles trembled as she clung to his back.He dizzied her with the feel of him moving inside her, maximizing the intensity rising between them.Oh, how Kennedy had missed him.She’d missed this emotionally charged physical connection
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