Standing Outside The Fire. Sara Orwig

didn’t want to walk away from this man who had turned her world topsy-turvy, the first man in her life to set her heart pounding. The best-looking man she had ever known, as well as the most exciting. He was silent, waiting, letting her make her choice.

      She stood on tiptoe, tightened her arm around his neck and drew his head down to kiss him.

      With their lips almost touching, she paused to whisper, “Someday I may regret this moment, but right now it seems perfect.”