All the reasons she’d resisted loving him this way to begin with. All the dreams they each held, dreams hung from goal posts on opposite ends of a long, long field. All the changes a relationship between them would bring to their lives, and to the lives of their friends and families. The multi-dimensional disaster if it didn’t work out. But she wanted. Oh, she wanted. And the look in his topaz eyes said he wanted, too, and what was life without a little risk... Jacob exhaled as though he’d been holding his breath. He said, “Melinda.” She said, “I know.” He said, “ But…” And she whispered, “Yeah…” His finger still held beneath her chin, but now he slid his whole hand along her cheek again, cupping her face. The look in his eyes melted her heart.
