““What?” I coaxed her. I doubted she could’ve possibly known how moved I was by what she said next. “From the moment I got here, all I’ve wanted to do was escape and go back home, but Derek…” she leant toward me and placed a gentle kiss over my cheek “…you’ve begun to feel like home.” Home. The word and all the sensations it lent me the moment it escaped her lips were still circling my mind the next morning. I””
