Mexican Nights (24 page)

"I adore you, Terri," he murmured urgently against her lips. "I need you desperately, and I always shall. Don't ever run away from me again."

It occurred to her fleetingly, as she heard the deep yearning in his voice, that they were behaving with as much abandon as the Mexican couples around them in the park.

Then she answered him in the only way she knew, by cradling his face in her hands and sealing his lips with her own, promising, in a communication that went far deeper than words, all her love for the rest of her life.