One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.

“Ian!" she cried, afraid to believe it. "I don’t want you to ever regret that yo…”

“If you’re not gratified, you should be,” he told her as he tucked the letter ba…”

“You’re killing me," he told her, panting, his palms sliding down over her ribs …”

“He imagined her upstairs in her room, lying in bed with her hair spread across …”