Wait until you see what I bought," Tina gushed with a female's mistaken belief that a man was ever interested in what came out of a shopping bag unless it had to do with lingerie, auto parts, or sporting goods.

“How can something make you so weak and so strong at the same time?”

“She smiled up at him, and he saw his whole world in her eyes.”

“So beautiful, I forgot how to breathe.”

“Her mouth was on his with such ferocity, it knocked him back a step. He managed…”