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Authors: Melanie Shawn
He made a show of looking over everything in my suitcase. “Hmmm…” he said mock thoughtfully, “I’m not sure if you have enough books. The fifty-fifty clothes-to-books ratio you have going on here is a little light on the printed word, I think.”
I playfully swatted at him. “Shut up! This is going to be an epic summer road trip. We’re doing forty-eight states in forty-eight days. I can’t run out of reading material. I’d go nuts!”
He moved to my side, squeezing my waist. “There are these little things called ebooks…”
I gasped. “I know you did
not
just say that to a future librarian!”
He put his hands up in surrender. “All right, all right. Far be it from me to try to separate a biblio-holic from her pages full of ‘the hard stuff.’ Or maybe I should say ‘the hard
cover
stuff.’”
I groaned. “You’re clever. I’ll give you that. Nowhere near as clever as you
think
you are, of course… But, then again, that’s a high bar.”
He touched my hair the way I loved and looked at me, his eyes shining. They held affection, attraction, and—my favorite of all the A-words—complete and total acceptance. Oh, and I couldn’t forget amusement.
“Do you really think you’ll read this many on the trip?”
“I have to keep powering through as many books as I can,” I explained lightly. “I’m on a quest to find a hero in one of them that even comes close to measuring up to you. I can’t abandon it now!”
He laughed and pulled me into a warm embrace. He slowly drawled, “Darlin’, that’s gonna be a long, frustrating, and ultimately fruitless search. You may as well just give it up and enjoy the real thing.”
“Hmmm… Okay. So ‘modesty.’ That’s another quality the hero would need. Let me make a mental note.”
We stood together for a moment until I finally sighed and gave him one last squeeze.
“All right. I’m satisfied with what I’ve packed. Let’s close this puppy up and get on the road. My Instagram followers are expecting me to be in Oregon by nightfall and Idaho tomorrow. Montana after that, and so on and so on. We’ve got a schedule to keep. We’ve got states to visit, and I’ve got pictures to take. #48states48days and everything.”
He grinned down at me. “And the best part is you’re gonna be in every shot.”
I kissed him long and hard. My heart beat wildly, just like it did every time I kissed him. Or touched him. Or, hell, even thought of him.
“No. The best part is that
we
are.”
THE END
THE CROSSROADS SERIES
